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The case for plain HTML

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A note, not an essay — expect it to change. This page shows how a wiki note reads: internal [[wiki links]] render as underlined-dotted links, and a backlinks panel sits at the bottom.

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A hand-written HTML page is the most durable document format I know of that still looks like a document. It has no runtime, no dependencies, and no version that can go out of date. A file I wrote in 2004 opens today, pixel-for-pixel, in a browser that didn't exist then.

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This connects to Gemtext & the small web — both are bets that constraint outlives capability. See also How I take notes for why I keep the source in plain text.

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Things I no longer do

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The test

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Turn JavaScript off. If the page is worse, I've added fragility I have to maintain forever. If it's identical, I'm done. This whole site passes that test — see the colophon.

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