The
“CSS router”
has always been quite the clever trick for navigating sufficiently small sites.
This site uses it to scroll switch pages, and
portable.fyi gets clever with visibility :target
switching. Do it just right and no one notices unless they “inspect the
elements”.

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It’s always humbling when I get around to reading a web related spec. and have a lot of functionality. JavaScript’s not bad (it’s the easiest part of web development) but gives you just enough rope to do super silly things like reinventing all built in browser functions.

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White spaces in trick many into writing complex — web development is trollish that way. Firefox’s developer tools show generated white spaces! Hopefully your abstraction is munging HTML faithfully. It’s easy to fight white spaces without realising it. That generally leads to using unsuitable display types and other shenanigans.

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Web servers can be spun up quickly on the command line but with gotchas.
Take the innocent web server .
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
Best not to use PHP
’s web server cli
(even for PHP) because routes with a
dot (.) are assumed to be
static files. Use a real web server
or superior cli
web servers with minor gotchas.
python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8080
busybox httpd -f -p 127.0.0.1:8080
ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8080