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A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Sheldan@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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A project I saw linked in the css post, and wanted to share, because I love the insanity.

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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

This says it's not enough to ban JavaScript: we also have to ban CSS.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago

The Internet was a mistake.

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The www in particular

[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Browsers too. Oh, and migth actually want to stop using computers in general if they have an Internet connection

[-] hexbatch@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

How about just fires to use smoke signals?

It worked for my grandfathers, and it seems comforting

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 2 months ago

reminds me of the guy that made a video in excel with cells as pixels... i enjoy the flex, but damn

[-] aard@kyu.de 17 points 2 months ago

About 20 years ago I made a script that converts pictures to HTML tables. Back then RAM was a severe problem for this, and even for more powerful hardware browsers tended to just crash on larger pictures.

I checked it again a few years later, and things looked way better. I guess using CSS it'd be rather trivial nowadays to do the same with a short video by just cycling through showing/hiding tables of each frame.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the “new” hotness is grid layout

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember that too but it's been so long I can't remember if I dreamed it up. Do you happen to have the video/link?

[-] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago

"I fear not the man who can make one thing in 10,000 languages, but I fear the man who can make 10,000 things in one language." - Bruce Lee

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 23 points 2 months ago

It's a fairly common thing on onion websites, especially those who offer real-time interaction (e.g. some onion web-chats), they use this Transfer-Encoding: chunked method for fetching messages and content because JS is often discouraged and sometimes automatically blocked by onion-enabled navigators while surfing DW. HTML Forms with submit buttons are also used for this kind of interaction.

[-] 56_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

What's wrong with forms?

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