This is fun and I understand it's a joke.<p>But since so many people do not understand the importance of HTML for accessibility, I feel the need to stress that this page may be a horrible experience for non-sighted people.<p>To sighted people, obscure unicode characters may look like text in a different font, but do they for screen readers? The same goes for ASCII art and the tables on this page.<p>Do all the fun stuff! But please draw the right conclusions for real-world projects.
RFCs were originally formatted as plain-text, and render well on most browsers (as long as the viewport width can fit 70 characters).<p>The first time I inspected one in a modern browser devtools, I was confused: "where's the HTML? How do they do this layout?". It's done with spaces, same way as you would with a typewriter.<p><a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt</a>
Responsive... "In that it generates a violent response from web designers. "<p>Didn't know about plaintext.l element. Could have just set content-type: text/plain; charset=utf8 though. Then it really would be no html
You absolutely can make a website without <i>any</i> HTML, not even a scrap of invalid markup.<p>Just use SVG. It does not need to be embedded in HTML to work.
> <meta charset="UTF-8"> is real. Without this, text encoding sniffing takes places and some browsers just displayed rubbish.<p>I am curious. Which browsers do this? I thought this tag is unnecessary in HTML5 because the information that the page is UTF-8 encoded is already implicitly conveyed by the DOCTYPE. (UTF-8 is the only encoding allowed for HTML5.)
Funny, but I’m saying it seriously as a countermeasure to the bloat epidemic. An SMS parking app doesn’t even need Internet and works fine. Use the simplest technology to achieve a goal and enhance.
Add less, ship less, worry about less. -- HTML is all you need to make a website<p>But if I could, I'd like to add none, ship none, worry about none.
My employer made me add so many shit.
I have no choice.
It would be fun to have something like Advent of code, but for arbitrary restrictions.<p>The grand finale could be making something without using a computer at all or buying anything (Not even for research, you have to use actual books or talk to people), and trying to use as little tech as possible.<p>Like, you can use a power drill, but if you use a brace and bit you get extra points. You can document with a phone camera but if you can draw you might want to illustrate instead.
It's been years since I saw it, but there was someone who was convinced pdf should have become the standard for web pages and did a site in pdf only.<p>Assuming I remember correctly.
"We're way out of our league here.<p>After all, we're up against the brightest minds in the world, the scientists who invented the world wide web."<p>And besides, what about links?
<a href="https://yourworldoftext.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://yourworldoftext.com</a> has a similar aesthetic, although JS-based