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Replacing JS with just HTML - HTMHell

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/

#HackerNews #JustHTML #Codex #GPT5 #Programming #JavaScript #Python

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …

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How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents

Is it possible to be nostalgic for code? Check out those meta tags, or lack of them. No CSS! VALIGN="TOP"! Save date on this file is January 30, 1998 at 2:54 p.m. ET. #html #justHTML

Thanks to the Apache SSI, I can now include text files with ease. I made blog posts as separate .txt documents and includes them on main HTML page.

This makes my site fully workable on text-based browsers like #links, #w3m or #Lynx.

#selfhosted #justHTML #noJS