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@prahou I use bgcolor on my website's front page... entirely on purpose!

@kawa @prahou hmm, i should up my game on my site
it reads fine in links2 but it's rather plain.
Is there a way i can have html attributes that are overridden by CSS if available?
Otherwise I still can probably make it work by using a background image that's solid and one pixel for the "themes" that don't have one currently, but meh

@wyatt @kawa

For now check out these for example: deadnet.se/ Apart for the animated bits it looks mostly the way it does in bloat-browser rendition.

@getimiskon 's website looks genuinely nice in links. getimiskon.xyz

...

I am planning to release an article `making websites specifically with links in mind' soon/eventually

Deadnet Internet Servicesdeadnet.se
@prahou i'm glad i was mentioned, because i made my last redesign specifically to look nice both on Links and on contemporary web browsers.
The tip is to use "deprecated" HTML tags. Sometimes they work much better than CSS, specifically when it comes to centering stuff.
@wyatt @kawa
void

@getimiskon @kawa @prahou @wyatt
For them to be comparable, css should have a way to actually center a div inside a div(it doesn't).

@void @kawa @prahou @wyatt
Centering stuff with CSS feels like a hack, and those who say that <center> is deprecated and CSS is better are lying. That's my opinion at least.

@getimiskon @kawa @prahou @wyatt
I have been making websites for money(i won't call myself w slur) for 3-4 months and i actually have issues with vertical centering in every single div i make that has to look it is properly centered.
This isn't a 'new web bad' post, there is not proper way to vertically center 2 divs inside a div. you put 2 divs inside another div and center that div(inside the actual div you want to center the 2 divs in) and it... doesn't.
I just want to rant a bit, sory.

@void Did you mean horizontal? Like in the middle between the left and right edges?

Vertical centering, between the top and bottom edge, has always been a shitshow.

Or I'm just too distracted and confused and I'm the one mixing them up.

@kawa
Vertical centering is simply impossible and not a real thing in html, you can't 'vertically center' anything. And i was talking about that in my post.
Anyone that says they can vertically center text inside a div reliably just talks off of theory soo they are a techbro.
Horizontal centering is also not real but not to the degree vertical centering is. Things can be easily made to look horizontally center in a div.

(i hate html soo much it is leaking out, sorry. Nice site btw)

@void i get it, it sounds painful. It's ridiculous that an issue that's already solved in the past stays unsolved without a reason.
@kawa @prahou @wyatt