[nephanth]

Now I'm wondering what kind of features you end up adding to your website that need server-side code. Comment systems?

[andybak]

How about a contact form?

[echoangle]

Here you go:

<form action="mailto:[e-mail]" enctype="text/plain">

[andybak]

In an ideal world yes. But from past experience many users have the association for mailto links misconfigured.

It's a terrible user experience.

[echoangle]

Yes, it depends on the target audience. For a personal website which the article was about, it would probably be fine for most hacker news users. If someone can’t manage to send me a mail, they probably wouldn’t see my website anyways. If you do your grandparents personal website, a proper form with a backend is better though.