Post #4179829

2026-07-29 02:07 UTC

lazyweb: imagine you need to make an HTML page that just shows a simple form, which'll do a simple request to a backend API when the user clicks the OK button. but you don't want to write raw HTML, use AI, or use anything cloud-hosted. What would you use to generate this?

Replies (8)

@cR0w@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 02:08

@foone@digipres.club Stack Overflow? I'm really curious to other responses.

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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange 2026-07-29 02:09

@foone@digipres.club why would you not do this in raw html? I can't think of any alternative that would be less work

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@Sempf@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 02:21

@foone@digipres.club Snag the html from this, CGI in language of choice. http://rebol.com/docs/cgi2.html#section-16

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-07-29 02:11

@foone@digipres.club Vanilla PHP. Unless it has to just be a fully static page. 😅

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@nothacking@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 03:18

@foone@digipres.club Ask mastodon to write the HTML for me of course! Test text box: Oooo, a button: , If it needs to be programmatic, I have written scripts for generating HTML before. It's not terribly difficult to roll your own.

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@kboyd@phpc.social 2026-07-29 04:28

@foone@digipres.club It's rather silly that in my framework of choice (symfony on php), the form stuff is - in my experience - the most annoying part. As a result, I prefer to just write html. Consequently, I'm of little use here. Sorry!

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@foone@digipres.club 2026-07-29 05:32

I'm thinking of compiling a small visual basic program and embedding it into the internet archive's emularity version of windows 3.1 inside an em-dosbox on my website

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@barubary@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 06:25

@foone@digipres.club document.write(' ... ')

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