Agreed, that is even more horrible. And probably just for performance reason alone should never ever get close to a real world product. Still, quite neat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791

    @Char = [a-z quotedbl backslash];
    @CharQuoted = [A-Z quotesingle slash];
    @NonQuoteQuoted = [A-Z slash];
    @Escaped = [asterisk dollar];
    
    feature liga {
      lookup xa {
        sub quotedbl @Char' by @CharQuoted;
        sub slash backslash' by dollar; 
        sub slash quotedbl' by asterisk;
        sub [@NonQuoteQuoted asterisk dollar] @Char' by @CharQuoted;
      } xa;
    } liga;
    feature liga {
      lookup xb {
        sub quotesingle' by quotedbl;
        sub slash' by backslash;
        sub dollar' by  backslash;
        sub asterisk' by quotedbl;
      } xb;
    } liga;

Perhaps especially if the sibling comment about embedding a state machine pans out?

You asked what it takes to make a blog.

I have a html front page, tag pages and posts. All static.

There is a pretty short php page that takes an existing post or the dummy, chops off everything in front and behind the text.

The tag cloud sits under it. Clicking a tag injects it under the text.

When saved the top and bottom html are reatached and the title <h2> is copied into the <title> tag.

It then creates or overwrites the static html document.

It finds tags in the html and inserts a link to the new article into the tag and index pages.

Load, split, join and save is actually less complicated than sql and faster:)

Deleting tags and blogpostings is done manually.

Besides editpost.php there is a bookmarklet to inject quotes with links and youtube embeds.

To get an idea, I repeatedly duplicated the CSS in the "tiny sandbox" until there were nearly 20,000 lines there, and then profiled the operation of changing the font-size by 1px in Firefox. Reflowing the textbox took about 1.6 seconds.

With `font-feature-settings: "calt" off` applied, so that the contextual lookups aren't being run, a font-size change for that same textbox content reflows in about 100 milliseconds.

(I don't have actual timings for the same example in Chrome, but subjectively, with "calt" disabled, the resize is near-instant, whereas with it enabled, it's quite laggy, similar to Firefox.)

As you have guessed, this used a rendering feature that was not pure.

There are many third party links that you can click on, which does align with the original ethos of the web.

> This site doesn't use cookies or <link> to any third party site.

:)

  @font-face {
      font-family: 'foo';
      src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64,d09GRgABAAAAAGy …)
  }