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diff --git a/gmi/a373033e.txt b/gmi/a373033e.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15342f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/gmi/a373033e.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +ID: a373033e-fe66-44f2-9457-4e27dfffaa6d +Title: Against HTML5 +Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net> +Date: 2021-06-15T11:15:15-00:00 +Topics: Web + +I'm against html5 for quite a variety of reasons, one of them is that isn't an standard (or "living standard" as WHATWG says) but an eternal draft. +Which only Google Chrome (spyware browser) can fully implement , leaving all other minor web browsers behind. + +And the second is that while it exists, it harms the WWW as we know it , along with , say , JavaScript (websites are heavily infested with this nowadays) , and thus they render useless without it. + +I use a modified variant of Luakit[1] which is a browser configurable and extensible by Lua, it fits all of my needs, although if I actually browse for example , the ActivityPub social media platforms I have to use Falkon[2] because it crashes Luakit , also most of them require JavaScript enabled for them to work , and I just can't be bothered in whitelisting sites in the browser. + +Back to the point , legitimately HTML 4.01 was the latest version of HTML itself , not HTML5. +I use XHTML 1.1 on my personal website because I want it to work on literally any web browser , even the corporate ones , without issues. +I just can't do that with HTML5 , because as mentioned before, it only gets fully implemented in Chrome. + +EDIT : Apparently not even Chrome even can implement fully its own thing , lol[3] + +The web as we know it may be just dead , or who knows? + +[1]: <https://luakit.github.io> +[1.5]: <https://gt.kalli.st/novaburst/luakit-misc> +[2]: <https://www.falkon.org> +[3]: <https://digdeeper.neocities.org/images/html5test_scores.png> + + +=> http://nothings.org/writing/websucks.html Why the Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It) +=> https://kill-9.xyz/harmful/software/html5 HTML5 (and only 5) considered harmful +=> https://www.nuegia.net/articles/open%20letter%20to%20webmasters.txt Open letter to webmasters +=> https://againstmodernbrowsers.neocities.org/ Against Modern Browsers +=> https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html Web browsers need to stop + +* Update #1: I'm no longer using Falkon as secondary browser |