#something would be incompatible (grid align stuff) or the html-sanitizer would break my delicate house of <span>s (tables! tables broke it!

[wrestlezon]

you would not believe the amount of website development css bullshit i had learned in the process of wanting to format those fake android text message screenshots exclusively through code and not an image, while also!!! having it look readable with the custom css disabled. (as it would be when the fic is downloaded etc etc).

plus, you know. im a huge stickler for accessibility. and you can't ctrl+f an image.

speaking of: theres not a single image involved! even the icons are shaped exclusively through css code, something that i previously didnt even know was a thing. i discovered that working on this, and it seems like a weirdly pointless option especially in a world where you can just embed an icon sheet and use that, BUT it is extremely handy in restrictive environments like ao3 that only allow limited html/css.

im not a huge fan of using external links in fics... as a longtime internet user, linkrot is a real problem. which means im not a big fan of using images in fics. its... just... its not very archival!! and i think that defeats the purpose of the whole dang place!!!! (this is my Hot Take, and also a Hill I'd Die On)

anyway big ups to mimzy for entertaining my complaints about embedding screenshots into their fic and using fancy css workskins instead. and also writing a good fic in a unique semi-meta POV.

the hard sell rules which is why i went through all this trouble, if you are a fic-reader consider reading this mjf and max caster fic.

since im an image-person who likes posting images here is a screenshot of my test environment with placeholder text (very in character) and also what it looks like with creator styles turned off

#talkzon #i also found a typo error with the workskin CSS whitelist and had to send in a support ticket about it... #...and then they got back to me and said that well actually they want to get rid of the grid align tags because theyre deprecated #😭noooo!! thats not what i wanted #and augh every time i thought i was done and made something look nice i'd go test it ON the site in a draft and find out that #something would be incompatible (grid align stuff) or the html-sanitizer would break my delicate house of <span>s (tables! tables broke it! #and i'd be like aaaaaaahhhh noooo this works fine on a normal webpage!!! curses!!!!!!! i'll need to find an alternative method #(this happened like three times) #anyway. every day i am compelled to do low-level webdevving #if only i had any reason at all to make a neocities site #anyway *poses like a cool guy who is also a huge fucking tech nerd* ask me about computers