Jen Simmons
Replace HTML? “You come at the king, you best not miss.” adactio.com/links/12888
Occasionally, people e-mail me to say something along the lines of “I’ve come up with something to replace HTML!”.
Five years ago, Hixie outlined the five metrics that a competitor to the web would have to score well in:
- Be completely devoid of any licensing requirements.
- Be vendor-neutral.
- Be device-neutral and media-neutral.
- Be content-neutral.
- Be radically better than the existing Web.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
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Related links
Untapped – Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence
It would be much harder for a 15-year-old today to View Source and understand the code structure that built the website they’re on. Every site is layered with analytics, code snippets, javascript plugins, CMS data, and more.
This is why the simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Diving into indiewebify.me & microformats, a series
Here’s a good walkthrough of adding microformats to your site, starting with h-card and moving on to h-entry.
Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023 - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.
In and Out of Style · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Some thoughts—and kind words—prompted by my recent talk, In And Out Of Style.
404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0
Well, this is rather lovely! A collection of websites from the early days of the web that are still online.
All the HTML pages still work today …and they work in your web browser which didn’t even exist when these websites were built.
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button type=”share”