• @nintendiator
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    6211 months ago

    lol. lmao. What am I even reading?

    The CSS is literally openly served along with the website. One line change in the HTML (in <link ref="stylesheet" .../> allows you to make your own CSS for a site. There’s a world of difference between that and “Google’s new trusted web bullshit”. And you know who sits much closer to Google than HTML and CSS?

    Javascript. That’s who.

    • AnonymousLlama
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      1911 months ago

      Have no idea what old mate is even on about. I thought it might have been a parody or copypasta

    • DarkenLM
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      211 months ago

      Javascript sits closer to Mozilla than Google. JS was created for the Netscape Navigator, and Netscape created Mozilla.

        • DarkenLM
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          211 months ago

          That I agree with. People are praising webassembly to replace JS (it won’t, but that’s another story), but at least obfuscated JS can still be read, albeit with some difficulty, but it’s harder to read WA executables. There will be a lot of malware created with WA.

    • @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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      -311 months ago

      It doesn’t matter if it’s open or closed. The problem is the unnecessary complexity and lack of straightforward and standardized meaning. If you want to customize the way you view the web in general, you will either limit yourself to small changes like ad blockers, or you will need a handcrafted custom CSS for every site you visit. There’s no real standardization in formatting. Everything is just a div with an arbitrary name.

      RSS feeds could address much of this, but it would need to be taken a step further.