Nkrs
Feels like all of the needless junk we shaved off from pages with XHTML-HTML5 transition is slowly coming back in shape of dozens of meta tags and resource links.
Simon Janes
I think we perhaps need to abandon HTML, JS and CSS and begin with a clean-slate.
🍊 Lucian Marin
The clean-slate: native apps with HTTP requests released on app stores. The newest piece of internet connected tech, smartwatches, don't even have web browsers. It's too late to reinvent the web stack. Even the new AMP format is just a more strict version of HTML/CSS/JS.
Nkrs
Microformats are alright for what they provide and we already use them in a couple of places, but that's not my point. I was asked to make the website shareable on social networks and more mobile friendly. The site is already responsive, so some of it is already covered. I read up on OpenGraph meta tags, added them to a test page, and it worked alright, but then I find out Twitter has its own prefix, so that's even more tags. I read up on mobile icons, and there's a dozen of different sizes. I don't think this functionality that's tangential to the site's contents an purpose is worth so many bytes.