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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used to create web pages, one of the building blocks of the IndieWeb.
How to
- https://twitter.com/ludvikherrera/status/1489641828068569090
- "Of course, when I mention HTML and content, it should be understood with all the nuance that is implied, from well-structured and written content, image captions, accessibility parameters, tidy and well-structured syntax, not only responsive but adaptive data + microformats." @ludvikherrera February 4, 2022
For how to use HTML to build web applications, see:
Quotes
- 2018-04-02 "8 yo: We're learning to make websites at school.
Me: Awesome, are you using Google Sites or something.
8 yo opens a text editor and types in 6 valid lines of html.
Me: ...
8 yo: Dad, why are you crying?" @ethanwhite April 2, 2018
"HTML. It is the foundation of all web content. No matter what changes in the world of JavaScript. Always start with HTML. #HTML #A11y"
- See thread for context: https://mobile.twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1507428048563539968
- "just wrote some HTML π" @molly0xFFF March 25, 2022
- https://indieweb.social/@raphaelluckom/109479104151482546
- "The more I look at #webdev as a not-full-time practitioner, the more I start to appreciate what I think of as the #indieweb position:
The basic document structure of the web is #HTML.
The basic layout engine is #CSS.
The more that a framework leverages these things directly--puts them in front of code authors and also expresses them clearly in its output, the better it is.
The more a framework hides or misrepresents them or doesn't engage with their semantics, the worse it is."
@raphaelluckom December 8, 2022
- "The more I look at #webdev as a not-full-time practitioner, the more I start to appreciate what I think of as the #indieweb position:
Tools
Command Line
- pup - a tool for extracting information from HTML at the command-line.
Humor
See Also
- building blocks
- microformats
- XHTML
- https://github.com/jamesseanwright/valimate - HTML validation tool
- https://html5up.net/ - responsive HTML5+CSS3 templates, CC licensed
- Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser by Simon Pieters (zcorpan), in-progress book about the history, specs, and parsing of HTML
- Parsing with regular expressions
- pup helps with parsing on the command line
- A famous website teaching kids (and anyone else!) how to build websites from 1997 onwards: http://lissaexplains.com/index.shtml
- Terence Eden: 2021-01-26 The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
- https://html-first.com/
quite aligned with IndieWeb principles and community values.The main goal of HTML First is to substantially widen the pool of people who can work on web software codebases.
- https://indieweb.social/@brianleroux/111689549468265686