HTML

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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used to create web pages, one of the building blocks of the IndieWeb.

How to

• https://twitter.com/ludvikherrera/status/1489641828068569090
  • "Of course, when I mention HTML and content, it should be understood with all the nuance that is implied, from well-structured and written content, image captions, accessibility parameters, tidy and well-structured syntax, not only responsive but adaptive data + microformats." @ludvikherrera February 4, 2022

Quotes

"Write code, not too much, mostly HTML"
@scottjehl 2019-06-12

"HTML. It is the foundation of all web content. No matter what changes in the world of JavaScript. Always start with HTML. #HTML #A11y"
@Steady5063 2022-02-01

How to build apps

Rather than using a JS framework, you can use mostly HTML to build web applications by following some development guidelines. As described in this blog post and demonstrated with examples:

• 2022-12-15 An HTML-first Mental Model

Keep the following in mind:

• Start with HTML. Keep the DOM stable and shallow. Don’t overuse classes
• Use CSS selectors and animation for little UI-behavior things when possible
• Aggregate your view-model on edge
• Server-side render with vanilla
• Behaviors instead of components

Tools

Command Line

• pup - a tool for extracting information from HTML at the command-line.

Humor

• https://no-ht.ml/

See Also

• building blocks
• microformats
• XHTML
• 2018-04-02 "8 yo: We're learning to make websites at school.
  Me: Awesome, are you using Google Sites or something.
  8 yo opens a text editor and types in 6 valid lines of html.
  Me: ...
  8 yo: Dad, why are you crying?" @ethanwhite April 2, 2018
• https://github.com/jamesseanwright/valimate - HTML validation tool
• https://html5up.net/ - responsive HTML5+CSS3 templates, CC licensed
• Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser by Simon Pieters (zcorpan), in-progress book about the history, specs, and parsing of HTML
• Parsing with regular expressions
• pup helps with parsing on the command line
• A famous website teaching kids (and anyone else!) how to build websites from 1997 onwards: http://lissaexplains.com/index.shtml
• See thread for context: https://mobile.twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1507428048563539968
  • "just wrote some HTML 🙂" @molly0xFFF March 25, 2022

• https://indieweb.social/@raphaelluckom/109479104151482546
  • "The more I look at #webdev as a not-full-time practitioner, the more I start to appreciate what I think of as the #indieweb position:The basic document structure of the web is #HTML.The basic layout engine is #CSS.The more that a framework leverages these things directly--puts them in front of code authors and also expresses them clearly in its output, the better it is.The more a framework hides or misrepresents them or doesn't engage with their semantics, the worse it is." @raphaelluckom December 8, 2022