💾 Archived View for dimension.sh › ~novaburst › a373033e.gmi captured on 2022-01-08 at 13:51:29. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

View Raw

More Information

⬅️ Previous capture (2021-12-04)

➡️ Next capture (2022-03-01)

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Against HTML5

Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 2021-06-15

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

Why the Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It)

HTML5 (and only 5) considered harmful

Open letter to webmasters

Against Modern Browsers

Web browsers need to stop