@cstross

Quick question, genuinly wondering: why no webp and/or avif?

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I think we probably don't have any other chance, anymore, considering the way shit is going

@cstross Maybe something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) ?

@cstross That sounds so much like #GeminiProtocol.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

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2027-01-01: MiniWeb deployed
2027-01-13: Arguments on best added markup to indicate BLINK peak on MiniReddit
2027-01-15: Markdown Dialect Wars begin
2027-02-03: MarkdownAI closes $273 billion funding round
2027-02-19: Advocates for a simpler TextWeb recommend returning to Usenet markup in USASCII
2027-02-21: UKASCII partisans invade TextWeb discussion forum and £ people they disagree with
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@cstross it’s always been there. CSS and JavaScript are both good things when *used suitably*.

Fuck bullshit nostalgia.

@cstross ...and you could sell a second edition of "The Web architect's handbook"?

<Moose hides in nuclear bunker for fear of massive retaliation>

@cstross can we keep gifs at least. and club penguin

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Grumpy man grumpies.

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See https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems

I'm not sure about Markdown. It still needs to be compiled, and it's not a well-defined standard.

@cstross
I'm probably one of the few people who can still code an html website. I began doing it text only in the late 90s, but now use a very old piece of software called Kompozer (Mozilla). Yes, I still have a website like that.

@cstross In 1996, I could copy-paste vector graphics, sounds, animations and even 3D models…

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41198

@cstross looking at how many people are starting to publish their sites in gopher or gemini... yeah, a lot of us. a *lot* of us yearn for that ^_^

@cstross I wouldn't even complain if that mean <marquee> came back

@cstross Is this a subtoot of https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems/
?