Comment by EvanAnderson

Comment by EvanAnderson 4 days ago

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> Yes, you must copy and paste content and not having layout page is annoying at times. But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment.

This calls out for server side includes[0]. I so loved server side includes back in the late 90s. You still work in plain HTML and CSS, boilerplate can be centralized and not repeated, and clients receive the entire page in a single request.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes

wink 4 days ago

> But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment.

Holy cow. The sole reason I learned SSI and then PHP in 1998 was because I was sick of this after like 2 weeks.

This person has more patience in their pinky than I have ever had.