@heydon WASM

@heydon Photoshop slices

@heydon squarespace

@heydon You articulate all required tasks as questions, search for them on stackoverflow and copy-paste the highest rated answer for each.

@heydon a miracle 🙏

@heydon pdf2html

@heydon courage

@heydon ppt2html

@heydon Go back to using tables for page layout 😉

@heydon I think everything is a video these days.

@heydon typescript.

@heydon copy and paste the first 10 StackOverflow answers you find into a single file and pray

@heydon PDF was seen as a replacement for the fax. I’m really old and think that’s still a good idea.

@heydon Writing HTML in Emacs, of course.

@heydon flash 😎

@heydon ActionScript 3.0 / Adobe Flex

@heydon Adobe GoLive

@heydon Host a Jupyter notebook on Google Colab

@heydon ChatGPT

@heydon wasm running a silverlight emulation

@heydon ActiveX widgets. Or Java Web Start if you need Netscape compatibility.

@heydon You can’t.

@heydon export from ms word

@heydon RenPy, export as HTML

@heydon HyperCard stack running in Emscripten-compiled Mac Plus emulator, of course. It’s all the rage these days!

@heydon Hammer and Chisel, like the Romans used to do.

@heydon tough question. Does PVA glue and elbow macaroni count as a framework?

@heydon blood sacrifice

@heydon https://no-ht.ml/

@heydon good God, your followers are a bunch of sick cunts.

You use MS Active Channel, obviously.

@heydon frontpage express. case closed.

@heydon Microsoft™ Silverlight

@heydon
iWeb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWeb

@heydon No-one has said ChatGPT? 😂

@heydon the only reasonable option is a publicly hosted Google Doc or Slides deck. Links to new 'pages' jump you to a later page/slide. You get free realtime comments/guestbook without even needing to learn what a 'web sock it' is! Global CDN for free!

@heydon Everyone’s data is already in XML, right? Just deliver that and let browsers convert it to webpages with XSLT.

@heydon Export from Macromedia Flash.

@heydon Silverlight

@heydon You can get your first month absolutely FREE when you sign up at squarespace.com and use code EVERYLAYOUT

Use ChatGPT

@heydon dreamweaver

@heydon Netscape Composer, of course, what else is there?

@heydon I'd use a framework locally, then take a photo with my phone of the output and load that picture to prod.

@heydon put the JS framework inside the noscript tag

@heydon I write XHTML 2.0 strict as every sane person does. 😎

@heydon .NET Blazor

@heydon first, write a new JS framework based around an obscure computer science term you heard once…

@heydon I tried fish, but it didn’t scale. ☹️

@heydon has anyone considered VBScript as an alternative yet?

@heydon dhtml

@heydon why would you not use one? They are amazing! Click a link and reload just the part of the page you need to update! ✨

Back in may day tho, they had a different name. We called them framesets.

@heydon Microsoft FrontPage Extensions

@heydon Macromedia Director

@heydon Imagemaps.

@heydon Java Applet

@heydon Xamarin For Web

@heydon Just use whatever DHH recommends

@heydon Java Server Feces I mean Faces! Definitely Feces!

@heydon Does HTML count as a framework?

@heydon Well if you can't use a JS framework, you'll have to get rid of all JavaScript. Fortunately, you can do a lot using only the CSS :target selector.

@heydon definitely don’t use html, it’s old.

@heydon design all the content as a series of images, make each image a frame of a single GIF.

@heydon
The proper way to build a website?
You hard code it as part of your hand rolled http server written in assembly of course.

@heydon HoTMetaL Pro

@heydon impossible

@heydon I guess the only option remaining is framesets

@heydon Java applets

@heydon use the Share button on Evernote…I mean Notion.

@heydon Adobe PageMill. The OG WYSIWYG.
But if you want something newer try GoLive CyberStudio!

@heydon MS Word > Export to HTML