Always bet on HTML | Chris Ferdinandi

But if I were going to bet on a web technology, it’s HTML. Always bet on HTML.

In brief: HTML is resilient, feature-rich, hyper performant, and scalable.

Related tweet text from Zach Leatherman:

Which has a better First Meaningful Paint time?

  1. a raw 8.5MB HTML file with the full text of every single one of my 27,506 tweets
  2. a client rendered React site with exactly one tweet on it

(Spoiler: @____lighthouse reports 8.5MB of HTML wins by about 200ms)

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