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Comment by thomascgalvin | Hacker News Reader

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

The hard-coded Geico ad really ties it all together

My god, it's perfect.

  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828"></head>
  <body link="#800080" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000080" vlink="#ff0000"><b><font size="6">
  <p align="center">B</font><font size="4">ERKSHIRE </font>

God, that takes me back. MSHTML, the mismatched tags, <font>, table layout, the webmaster that added the Google Analytics snippet before the DOCTYPE tag

> If you have any comments about our WEB page

Haha, this webpage on the inter network is amazing

Ok, now I'm tempted to buy BRK-B (BRK-A a bit too pricey...)

Ew. I mean 500 bytes of CSS would make this so much better.

No. It’s perfect as is. I can find everything I want. Everything is accessible to everyone and screen readers. Does not require JavaScript.

The home page links are teeny tiny on a phone screen, borderline unreadable.

That's because phone browsers have the insane braindead default of scaling everything into tiny unreadableness. You have to explicitly say "stupid browser, nobody ever wanted this shit, behave sensibly by including <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">. No idea why this idiotic custom still hasn't been purged from mobile browsers, but I guess it's just a valuable tradition now...

Before mobile browsers arrived, everything was fine and nobody needed meta viewport stuff. That's why this 1997 era page doesn't have it.

> everything was fine

Everything was fine best viewed in IE5.5 at 1024x768. Time has changed.

If only there was a way to zoom, on your phone?!

If only you could add 500 bytes of CSS so the content fits the screen.

> Does not require JavaScript

Who mentioned JavaScript?

They did - their list wasn’t all related to _your_ post, other than to say the site is “perfect” to them, after which they enumerated the reasons including “does not require JavaScript”

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