Man shouts at sky and exclaims bring back old fashioned HTML!

[editor]

Well, obviously I don't really mean this because newer web technologies are infinitely more flexible and powerful, but the amount of time I've tried to copy and paste a newsletter or web page text into Wordpress only to find it comes with pages and pages - literally - of repeating <span> <div> tags that I have to spend time cleaning up.

It's not unusual for there to be way more tags than actual text content.

Copy in an old school HTML-based page and it's as scccchwwweeet as a nut. Bosh! No editing required. Job done.

Oh and as matter of principle I always edit out the FB code which it tries to infest URLs with.

Sorry. rant over!

 

[Pickman's model]

cheers

 

[Puddy_Tat]

wordpress pisses me off - i have a wordpress page for an event that's only once a year, so it doesn't really get touched for 6 months of the year, then a few updates leading up to the event, and the way you get to anything / do anything seems to have changed pretty much every time i want to do something.

 

[platinumsage]

Also, so many pages are full of empty lines like this one:

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Or failing that the code is all on one sodding line or something.

It makes stealing bits of code or embedded content slightly harder.

 

[platinumsage]

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[hiccup]

I've been enjoying the old school html-ness of building a site using the Eleventy static site generator.

The set-up is a bit javascripty for a javascript moron like myself, but once it's up and running being able to write in plain old html/markdown/nunjucks/pretty much any other templating language is great.

Deploying to Netlify via pushing to Github is really cool too.

 

[nick]

SO ... indenting.
Tabs or spaces?

 

[editor]

Also, so many pages are full of empty lines like this one:

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Or failing that the code is all on one sodding line or something.

It makes stealing bits of code or embedded content slightly harder.

That code is positively lean and mean compared to some of the stuff I regularly see.

 

[contadino]

SO ... indenting.
Tabs or spaces?

People get so worked up over that. It's nuts.
If you use a decent ide it's irrelevant.

 

[furluxor]

Also: it feels like there's a lot less variation between websites, they all look alike. That's why when I wanted to make my own, I went to Neocities and did it in HTML. It looks like it's 1999 but somehow that feels preferable.

 

[ska invita]

Copying text into a .txt document, ie Notepad (on Windows) and then copying out of that into wordpress or wherever is a good way of stopping annoying formatting issues

 

[editor]

Copying text into a .txt document, ie Notepad (on Windows) and then copying out of that into wordpress or wherever is a good way of stopping annoying formatting issues

For that I just use CTRL-SHIFT- C and CTRL-SHIFT- V!

 

[ska invita]

For that I just use CTRL-SHIFT- C and CTRL-SHIFT- V!

interesting! will try that

 

[editor]

interesting! will try that

I used to do the notepad thing thing too. This was a revelation!