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by dbdr 64 days ago
Amazing to see a webpage "Updated Dec 1998" still up, running and displaying correctly.
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Without fancy JS or CSS, sites can last decades easily
With JS and CSS sites can last decades easily.
Agreed, it's not those, it's the fact that we went from JS being a little sprinkling of dynamism on a document to an entire build process with massive numbers of dependencies and browser shims. The web feels like a mistake as a platform...
I said "fancy", meaning frameworks or custom things. With vanilla js everything is durable