HTML Is a Cool Target

This entry is part of 100 Days to Offload 2024.

After writing a Git repo-to-HTML converter, I think it is an underappreciated target. HTML is like PDF: Everyone can display and work with it. It has a lot of benefits:

  • It's plain text, easy to generate
  • Nearly every platform can render HTML
  • Good accessability features
  • Humans can read and write it (like I'm doing right now)
  • You can embed it in other HTML
  • You can progressively add functionality via scripting or Webcomponents
  • You can put it online and link to it!

So maybe I'll make more data-to-HTML converters and put them on my website. If you have any ideas, feel free to contact me!