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> We can be smug about our pure HTML5 static sites now but who knows what the browser landscape will be like in 2050.

Pure HTML probably has the best chance of surviving.



> Pure HTML probably has the best chance of surviving.

If you took that thought seriously you'd do HTML3 with nested tables and font tags, that stuff is going to last forever. But HN fashion says Javascript bad CSS good.


>HN fashion says Javascript bad CSS good

I mean, JS is pretty objectively bad. It's a great example of the "worse is better" phenomenon.




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