#Web nostalgia: I just clicked “surprise me” several times on wiby (a search engine for sites that have no JavaScript at all) and it’s a lot of fun. https://www.wiby.org/ #WebDev#HTML
Today on Silly Decisions That Were Made a Long Time Ago That We Still Have to Live With…
Just got reminded that submitting an HTML form with checkboxes via POST only submits checkBoxName='on' for checkboxes that are checked and… checks notesnothing at all for checkboxes that are not.
@aral Ruby on rails had this helper that would add a hidden input with the same name attribute, but value="off" or something like that. And AFAIR the last element in the DOM gets transmitted. So when unchecked, you get "off" and when checked, you get "on".
Once more, @adactio is right: reducing #web#performance to only the business benefits doesn’t do it justice.
The big-picture implications – like sustainability, inclusivity, and also the joy of using a snappy website – are every bit as important, because they directly affect us as human beings. 👏
If you’re using HTML Validate (you should; it’s ace), update to 7.15.2. It no longer flags multiple buttons with the same name used in forms as a validation error (this is a valid pattern that lets you interpret a form differently on the server based on which button it was submitted with).
Do anyone have a recommendation where to set up a #docker container for as cheap as possible? 🐋📦
The web app I'm playing around with is very small and it can probably get away with some heavy performance restrictions.
It's just a hobby thing, so the main thing is that it needs to cost as little as possible (or free) :blobcatthinking:
Wait a second… Why is it, that we need a search engine to use the web? I mean, the web wouldn’t be as useful without one. Web is too dependent on Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing/etc – and there is no fix. #SearchEngine#Web#Internet
"30 years ago this week…something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain…#CERN owned Berners-Lee's invention and…had the option to license [it] out…for profit. But Berners-Lee believed that keeping the web as open as possible would help it grow…[He] eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the #PublicDomain without any #patents or fees."
On April 30, 1803, The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from from the French First Republic for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the country.
Also, that's $40 billion in today's dollars.
France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans which the U.S. would have to obtain by treaty or by conquest.
After the NCSA released the Mosaic web browser later that year, the Web's popularity grew rapidly as thousands of websites sprang up in less than a year.
Earlier, The Gore Bill helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which team developed the Mosaic web browser.
Not only do they have one of the most private search engines, it is now fully independent. Search engines not tied to either Google or Bing crawlers are good for the web in general. 👍