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No, that’s just the first step. Browser makers would like to remove alert/prompt/confirm altogether: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894. But they’re too popular to remove under their current policies unless they’re really causing harm, and I do believe there’s serious risk of them classifying it that way.
Remember also the big difference between deprecation and removal. I’d go so far as to say I think it’s likely that alert/prompt/confirm will be deprecated and produce console warnings in at least one major browser before four years pass, though I don’t believe they’ll yet have justified going ahead and removing it.
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> Ruby on Rails, since it feels mostly stable - however i need the exact same version of Ruby both on my local machine and the server for it to work
Doesn't sound so stable to me…
> Why couldn't i build my personal website with some mostly static content and have it work for many years, while i'm not tied down with constantly maintaining it?
You can, HTTP still works and even oldschool html mostly works¹.
If you only need sqlite as a db you could easily compile a static binary that will run forever (as in foreseeable future) and serve content via unencrypted HTTP. If you then use a reverse proxy that can be automated with certbot you will have a system where all the maintenance work is done by the EFF, the reverse proxy developers and your distro's packaging team.
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Parody aside, we actually need something like this.
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of breaking changes to the web platform:
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Take the word "deprecated" with a grain of salt. I've got a project that utilizes an HTML tag deprecated in 1993! https://github.com/kristopolous/TopLevel
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which basically means "stop parsing for rest of the page". There's no way to close the tag. It's super easy to implement which is probably why it's still around.<p>Deprecated 28 years ago in HTML 1.1, yet still supported in all major browsers. -
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I was going to list some use cases individually, but you can get a better picture by skimming through this: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
It's rare that a self-hosted piece of software is not present on this list. As you can see, the coverage is pretty extensive.
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IIRC it was going to conflict with JavaScript imports. So now they are going all in on Javascript. See, e.g. CSS Modules: https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
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SerenityOS probably has the most serious attempt I've seen at "Let's make our own web browser for the sake of it" (along with the rest of the OS). I think they are still working towards Acid 2 compliance but they also have a spattering of newer features supported as they hack at getting newer sites to work. Not a very whacky take though just a home grown one.
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