AI rotbrain discovers CSS in 2026.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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I don’t want anyone on this thread to stumble on my handwritten self hosted website because I probably used the wrong names for CSS classes or something and didn’t test it on those ultra wide monitors that go around the room.
These people are indistinguishable from my grandparents when it comes to using tech
You can also save up to 100% by externalizing the HTML part too
I already do this by writing React components.
This is like the "all men can fix the plumbing in their own home" version of web development ...
As someone that has been writing CSS for something like 18 years, this is peak cringe.
You can save 100% on tokens by not being a clucker.
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It'll still produce better markup than MS Frontpage.
But that's like saying someone's asshole would produce a better 'cake' with a light dusting of icing sugar.
<marquee>suck on these tokens</marquee>
The day the blink tag was removed from the rendering engine was the day we lost our way.
The story behind the blink tag is so ridiculous.
At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. ... Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser. How could this be, you might ask? It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight. He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_element
While initially popular, became much maligned because of overuse; many people found it annoying. More importantly, it degrades readability and can be particularly problematic for users with visual impairments or cognitive disorders such as epilepsy or ADHD. It can be disorienting or, in the worst cases, even trigger seizures.
tbf it's a valid reason to drop its support
Oh come on. Nobody used it since we have animated gifs as replacement.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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this has to be satire right? please someone tell me he's only joking. please.
I'm reading the whole thread on xcancel and I'm wondering if they're all in on the joke / trolling or ...
If only there was a way to do this with the tags as well
There was a time where people were made fun of for saying they program in HTML. Now some people proudly explains you to use AI to write it. The same type of people use LLM as a calculator and are in awe for its publiposting capacities. Wait for the day they would program a AI to print on carbon paper. Two copy for one file in memory!!
How I look when I ask chatgpt for the 723rd time how much water to use in the rice cooker even though the booklet is right there and I make rice 3 times a week:
Please, do not ever send me such a thing into my inbox.
They didn't think of just letting it generate the text (usually Markdown) and then processing it to HTML?
Wait, the LLM does the "thinking" there.
I assume that if it isn't already happening, future models will have instructions to maximize token usage.
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if they're using class="card" then they're likely using something like bootstrap in which the CSS is largely handled for you anyway
I have class names like that and I don't use any framework
Fun fact, people often use css frameworks as a starting point and override a lot of built in classes to add their own look.
Although it has lead to every website have that 2/3/4 column look for about 10 years at least. Widescreen monitors have 50% of the space wasted,
I think it was Grid that started it, had 12 columns you could divvy up with a load of weird classes, and then a version of grid got added to the CSS standard instead so now it's just there.
You can still make CSS from scratch, but I can see why a beginner would go with Bootstrap or whatever.
Unless your using an LLM to make simple one-page HTML pages. In which case it likes to reinvent the wheel every single time. 🤣
I thought it was arguing how to make ai burn more tokens when scraping your site
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