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CSS, Javascript, and HTML 5.0 are all modern and terrible!

Recently a wave of retro-looking websites have been popping up around the webz. But most of them use atleast one of these technologies. I want to shed some light on how those technologies might harm your (((aesthetics))).

Why Javascript is terrible

It's code. It's code running in your browser.

Why CSS is terrible

(Almost) Everything CSS does is bad for your webpage design. You can do most styling in just HTML 4.0, with <body> attributes, and <font> tags. Anything else like changing tags' ckground color, and animating <div> tags is, in my opinion, against the retro bpage aesthetic.

All that said, I don't have anything against using a little bit of CSS in your webpages. My pages have this in them...

<style>
h1, nav { text-align: center; }
p { margin-left: 6%; margin-right: 6% }
</style>

...which is totally fine as far as aethetic goes. But these things aren't:

  • <div> tags with background colors
  • <div> tags with rounded corner
  • (((sidebars)))
Sooicide

Why HTML 5.0 is terrible

Alright, I don't really have any real problems with HTML 5.0, other than it deprecated HTML 4.0 styling. Technically it's (((bloated))) of course, but so is every other damn web standard.


Written: Sat, 2022 Apr 23, Last modified: Sun, 2022 May 01

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