Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions

I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post but the underlying idea is still the same, which I would describe as: Avoid in-page interactions that require JavaScript in favor of multi-page navigations that rely on HTML and are enhanced with CSS view transitions (and a dash of JS if/where prudent). As an example, on my blog I have a “Menu”. It doesn’t “expand” or “slide out” or “pop in” or whatever else you can do with JS. Instead, it navigates to an entirely-new page that is focused on just the menu options of my site. I say “navigates” because it’s just a link — <a href="/menu/"> — and it functions like a link, but the navigation interaction is enhanced by CSS view transitions. Have a newer device with a modern browser? Great, you get a nicer effect. Have an older device, or an older browser, or JS disabled, Et al.? It’ll still…