A highly compatible design with no ads, unnecessary images, videos, animations, scripts that goes straight to point delivering you exactly the information you need and nothing else? Something that’s easily accessible even with old feature phones allowing older people to get information easily?
Simply something that loads instantly and just works?
yeah, just css is enough.
you don’t need js unless you need to fetch data dynamically.
you can do all of your animations, dropdowns and transitions in css.
like this menu i made. no js in sight.
I’m currently working on a little project that’s interesting to me (a low-spoiler walkthrough system for adventure games) and after a lot of back and forth, I decided to cut all of JS out of the picture. Just get rid of all of it, and do good old 90s server-side rendered HTML with modern CSS placed on top of it.
And that’s, honestly, a joy. The first draft of a page looks like the first screenshot, then you add some semantic classes to the html and throw some simple CSS at it and it looks acceptably neat. And I could get rid of so much janky toolchain I just fail to understand.
Very true. There are obviously some community projects, but no doubt, official software would be better. Or even better, if they would make it easy for the community to develop those tools.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but does Sync seriously charge to remove ads that they added to browsing Lemmy in the first place? I get charging for Reddit due to the API, but I have a hard time believing the app is that much better than the existing FOSS apps such that the privacy tradeoff with ad trackers and/or the monetary cost worth it for, well, anyone really. Seems kinda scummy and antithetical to the philosophy that drives much of the Fediverse to me, yet I see so many people defending it in a way that reminds me of the rhetoric used to defend Reddit. Seriously, am I just a crazy person?
It’s still in beta but it’s fucking amazing. Brings me so much joy to see Infinity live on. I’m using the same theme and settings I did when I use Reddit and it’s almost as if I’ve never left. Just on a better platform now without shitty policies.
PSA: if you install Obtanium, it’ll works as an updater for any git repo release apps like this. Just link the source code page and enable “enable prerelease” and it’ll download the APK, and it’ll check it periodically to run seamless updates. Also Obtainium will update itself from grabbing its own releases from it’s git repo page.
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