Tag: html

  • Using static websites as personal archives

    Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison’s mention of Alex Chan’s “Using static websites as tiny archives” post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I’d mention it to! There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m…

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  • Building Tuff – A static site generator just for me

    Just about a month ago, for some unknown and undoubtedly a sleep deprived reason, I began building my own static site generator (SSG). And I did it entirely wrong. This is that story. A sensible person would have first looked at the available static site generators and tried them first. I didn’t. In fact, I…

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  • Do you use the Web Share API?

    If you use the Web Share API, Jeremy Keith is looking for more feedback. I’m not expecting anything to happen anytime soon, but it would be really good to gather as much data as possible around existing usage of the Web Share API. If you’re using it, or you know anyone who’s using it, please,…

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  • Jeremy Keith’s proposal for the Web Share API

    Jeremy Keith: So that’s my modest proposal. Extend the list of possible values for the type attribute on the button element to include “share” (or something like that). In supporting browsers, it triggers a very bare-bones handover to the OS (the current URL and the current page title). In non-supporting browsers, it behaves like a…

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  • Re: The usefulness of Microformats

    Kyle Kneath recently wrote I just don’t get this whole Microformats thing and I wanted to take a minute to respond to him. Kyle is doubting the usefulness of Microformats, and is also saying that he thinks the learning curve is too hard because of the documentation making things "too hard". First I’ll address his…

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