<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">... and if it is not obvious, this was meant to be a reply to Denny's email.<div><br></div><div>(One day I'll learn how to use a computer)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:29, Joseph Haig <<a href="mailto:josephhaig@gmail.com">josephhaig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was slightly tongue-in-cheek when I suggested a Wordpress killer but I'm glad to see there are some out there in active development.<div><br></div><div>I do think, though, that it would be the only way to overhaul the massive PHP dominance on the web, if that happens to be anyone's lifetime goal.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:17, Joseph Haig <<a href="mailto:josephhaig@gmail.com" target="_blank">josephhaig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Any instances of 'Best Viewed In Internet Explorer' in the wild?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 17:15, Max Williams via Chat <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I guess there are a bunch of sites that still have <i>"If they have Flash do this, if not do that" </i>code.  The Flash block never runs any more but i guess qualifies the site as "using Flash"</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM Chong-Yee Khoo via Chat <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Shockingly, the associated page for “client-side programming languages for websites” shows that Flash is still being used for 2.5% of websites!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language</a><br id="m_-4808749156679524723m_-8540654572904149836m_7613127860178369628m_-4253474312438269041lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Mar 2026, at 20:54, Joseph Haig via Chat <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Perhaps this is old news to most people but I found this interesting.<div><br></div><div>I looked up the back-end language stats for websites after hearing someone ask who uses PHP anymore. I remember seeing some years ago that half the web runs on PHP and I see that it is now well above that:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language</a></div><div><br></div><div>I suppose this isn't a surprise, thanks to Wordpress, Drupal and others. What I did find surprising is that Ruby is still top of "the rest" (albeit a long way behind PHP) and it is apparently growing (albeit slowly). I honestly thought that Node and Python would be higher.</div><div><br></div><div>So clearly what we need is a viable Wordpress alternative written Ruby so that we can narrow the gap!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Joe</div></div>
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