In addition to my gopher site, I also have a small website hosted
on SDF. It's random mishmash of stuff which is honestly pretty
fitting for early web style websites.
One of the things that I really wanted to do with the website was
program it in old HTML like HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 to keep up with
the retro theme.
However, one modern thing I did do as an accomodation to modern
users is add the viewport meta tag. This allows mobile devices to
have a more zoomed in view of the page.
By placing the above line in the HTML file, it will actually allow
phones and tablets to have a "decent" enough view of the content.
It certainly still isn't mobile-first by any means but honestly,
the original web was consumed on PCs and I want to keep it that
way. But at least if you're on an iPhone you don't have to zoom
all the time for most of the webpages. I like this implementation
because it's just one line added to the HTML files and it doesn't
require any javascript or anything like that. Plus since it is a
meta tag, all of the pages still validate as HTML 3.2 or HTML 4.0.
anyways, for those old-timers with old school websites from the
geocities days, updating your retro webpages to add that one-line
is an easy way to allow mobile devices to at least have a more
pleasant view of your content without compromising that much on
the authenticity of your retro HTML.
