Major refactoring

[375gnu]

1. Page should be written using a template language like Haml instead of HTML. Or at least SSI can be used to simplify inclusion of common parts.

2. JavaScript should not be used.

[TheLostProbe]

why shouldnt javascript be used?

[375gnu]

Some users prefer not to use it. Also with modern browsers it's often possible to make dynamic pages without JS, and in case of such pages JS is used only to support old browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer).

[TheLostProbe]

i suppose that makes sense. nobody uses IE anymore, so it probably wouldnt hurt to drop javascript as long as it can be fully replaced by something else

[TheLostProbe]

not sure if this belongs here, but could we use geolocation to obtain the users location and send them to a version of the website in their local language/dialect? this would require translation of the whole website in a multitude of languages and would also require some javascript, but i think it would be a very useful feature to add. what are your thoughts?

[levinli303]

we should not use geolocation, but instead use browser locale. one way would be to detect browser locale and redirect user accordingly (needs js), if we do not need to auto switching based on locale, we can provide a language option menu like celestia.mobi. the translation could be implemented in HTML generator free of js.

celestia.mobi uses server side Swift + Plot as the website generator.