Daily Archives: 2021-03-29

Article note: Bummer. An entirely reasonable decisions because supporting the modern web stack is unreasonable for...anyone on any platform... and a single volunteer with occasional help working on vintage machines is far from the ideal case. The fact that the modern web stack is that awful is a huge problem in general though. I don't know if it's simple complexity fetishism and not thinking interactions through, or actual malicious standards-engineering to benefit specific incumbents, but it's really, really unsustainable.

Article note: Saw this burble up in retrocomputing-specific venues the other day, a more positive "Old computers and _the way_" note: Google News stripped such that Netscape1.1 running on a potato can render it. It still amazes me how changes to HTML that were supposed to lead to _less_ specifying presentation instead lead us into the absurdly brittle locked-in-presentation behavior of the modern web (never mind the _absurd_ runtime we've sprung, that makes the horrible old Java Applet system look like a reasonable behavior).