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plugnburn | 10 years ago

When I opened the page, I honestly thought CSS failed to load. But then I looked at the first line of the page source:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
I think they really shouldn't tell us what is now an acceptable scripting language if they still consider that design and that doctype acceptable in 2016.

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Matt3o12_|10 years ago

I don't see anything wrong with that. Just because it doesn't use the fanciest and newest version of bootstrap, doesn't mean the site is bad. Sure it uses an old version of HTML but what the heck? It can read it just fine and safari's reader works perfectly – much better then most of the sites that use modern CSS. I'd rather have a site that loads quickly then a site that loads tons of MBs for scripts, big images and fonts (and thus eats up all my mobile bandwidth) just to see a site that breaks safari's reader, and disables zoom so I can barely read it. I'm not saying that all of those fancies sites are like that but a lot are. Especially when they're made by backend engineers who don't know much about UX design. I'd rather get a well made HTML 4 site then a badly made HTML 5 site.

itsunbelievable|10 years ago

This is sickening-grade bikeshedding. Next time, spare us, and say it to your rubber duck instead.

agumonkey|10 years ago

I hope he doesn't look at HN HTML code.

shrugger|10 years ago

deleted b/c brigading

plugnburn|10 years ago

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