I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a <table> just like it's 1994.
What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the security landscape has changed quite a bit, and such pages are always in the deep long tail of Google results (and therefore practically invisible to AI summaries, which often surface complete junk as sources).
sheept•26m ago
The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly.
Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.
burkaman•19m ago
It's obviously not designed for mobile but I wouldn't call it unfriendly, it's still fast and pretty easy to read. It also works perfectly with Firefox reader mode.
Krssst•18m ago
Firefox's reader mode works really well on the article, I wonder why it's not the default for unstyled pages.
xnx•16m ago
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> is the only thing keeping this page from being mobile friendly.
Having that not be the browser default was a good idea in 2008, but not now.
account42•3m ago
It wasn't a good idea even in 2008.
sixtyj•17m ago
> Over 600 Falcon 9 rockets have been launched. Most of the upper stages are either in orbits close to the earth or have already re-entered the earth's atmosphere. A few are orbiting the sun. The object that will be hitting the moon has been orbiting the earth for a little over a year.
isodev•11m ago
Elon Musk, Solar System polluter of the year (topping both planetary and interplanetary rankings)
holoduke•7m ago
This sheep talk should not be on hackernews. Please refrain yourself from it.
clort•13m ago
something they didn't mention, what is in this upper stage? I'm presuming a rocket motor and some fuel is that right..? They do a calculation of energy release on impact, but I'm wondering if there is any fuel left and whether that would affect their equation?
ilamont•1h ago
What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the security landscape has changed quite a bit, and such pages are always in the deep long tail of Google results (and therefore practically invisible to AI summaries, which often surface complete junk as sources).
sheept•26m ago
Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.
burkaman•19m ago
Krssst•18m ago
xnx•16m ago
Having that not be the browser default was a good idea in 2008, but not now.
account42•3m ago