Kelp
A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.
Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025
- Building HTML pages is easy
- Pure HTML is evergreen
- Bloated web pages are too slow
- I can host it anywhere, often for free
- Accessibility and SEO benefits are automatic
- It won’t need security patches
- There are no build steps
Related links
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube
A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!
Snook Dreams of the Web - Snook.ca
If we were to follow Jiro’s and his apprentices’ journeys and imagine web development the same way then would we ask of our junior developers to spend the first year of their career only on HTML. No CSS. No JavaScript. No frameworks. Only HTML. Only once HTML has been mastered do we move onto CSS. And only once that has been mastered do we move onto JavaScript.
Building WebSites With LLMS - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).
I really like this approach: using separate pages instead of in-page interactions. I remember Simon talking about how great this works, and that was a few years back, before we had view transitions.
I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less work.
5 Questions for Jeremy Keith · Frontend Dogma
If you like the prospect of an old man ranting at clouds, this is for you.
Related posts
Making the website for Research By The Sea
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
Train coding
Generating a static copy of The Session from the comfort of European trains.
Displaying HTML web components
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
Schooltijd
Going back to school in Amsterdam.
HTML web components
Don’t replace. Augment.