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<h1>Html Day 2026 — Brussels</h1>
<h2>What is HTML day?</h2>
<p>An informal gathering to write and celebrate HTML.
See: <a href="https://2026.html.energy/">https://2026.html.energy/</a> for more info and events in other cities.</p>
<h2>Who is it for?</h2>
<p>Anyone looking to (re)kindle their HTML energy -- open for all levels of experience.</p>
<h2>What should you bring?</h2>
<p>A laptop and a desire to write HTML.</p>
<h2>Where is it happening?</h2>
<p>Brussels, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/168961827">Constant studio, Chaussée de Jette - Jetsesteenweg 388</a></p>
<h2>When</h2>
<p>2 - 5 PM CEST</p>
<h2>Resources</h2>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://londonhtmlday.neocities.org/">London event page</a> for lots of resources and links to inspiring sites.</p>
<h2>Quotes / Inspirations</h2>
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<p>"[...] One thing it was not like: it was not like being in a library. The whole experience gave an intense illusion, not of information, but of <em>personality</em>” (emphasis added).</p>
<p>Trans users conveyed this personality through three key affordances of the home page and web browser: its basis in <mark>HTML</mark>, hypertext’s nonlinear structure, and the ability to embed media. Compared to the apparently static print text, work created in <mark>HTML</mark> offered far more flexibility. If they wished, creators could write, erase, and rewrite their work as many times as they desired. Unlike the memoir, they were not required to present a coherent, unitary self, but could explore different chosen names and gender performances, including their discomfort with limiting themselves to one end of the gender binary. And, as creators grew more confident in their self-identity, their home page could change to reflect their growing confidence.</p>
<p>Source: <i>The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet</i>. Avery Dame-Griff. 2025.</p>
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<p>I never intended <mark>HTML</mark> source code (the stuff with the angle brackets) to be seen by users. A browser/editor would let a user simply view or edit the language of a page of hypertext, as if he [sic] were using a word processor. The idea of asking people to write the angle brackets by hand was to me, and I assumed to many, as unacceptable as asking one to prepare a Microsoft Word document by writing out its binary coded format. But the human readability of <mark>HTML</mark> was an unexpected boon. To my surprise, people quickly became familiar with the tags and started writing their own <mark>HTML</mark> documents directly.</p>
<p>Source: Tim Berners-Lee. <i>Weaving the Web</i>. Harper. 1999. 42.</p>
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<h2>Guestbook</h2>
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<p class="bubble">Hi I'm Michael (he/him). I made my first web page in 1995, so I still remember things like the font tag.</p>
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<p class="bubble">Hi, I'm Alice (they/them). Never heard about the font tag. I'm quite new to html. I work on a wiki about funny but also very serious law controversies.</p>
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<p class="bubble">Martin (he/him). I am the proud recipient of a hypertextual <a href="https://sohyeon.online/pages/cafesohyeon/pastis/pastisformartin.html">pastis</a>.
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<p class="bubble">Yvan (any). I currently writing my windows manager (yes yes) in html!
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Lucía (she/her) . I have been tending to my website / html garden for 7 years and i still have fun playing with html&css to build little pages, doodles, ideas, ... :)
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<h2>Accessibility</h2>
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<p><i>Mobility:</i></p>
<ul><li> If you are coming by car, there are two accessible parking spots further on the Chaussée de Jette / Jetsesteenweg after the roundabout. The closest underground parking in the vicinity is on 513 Rue Léopold I / Leopold I-straat, 13 min distance from Constant’s studio.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> If you are coming by public transport, there is a lift in the metro-station Simonis / Elisabeth.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> Our studio’s street, Chaussée de Jette / Jetsesteenweg is a one direction street, crossed by cars, bikes, steps and passers-by. It can be busy and noisy at times, but the studio occupies the back of the building so it is quite quiet.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> Our studio is located in an old building with few facilities for wheelchairs. The front blue door is very large, but the hallway is very narrow and the studio entrance may be not suitable for every kind of wheelchair (82 cm width). There is a small ramp in front of the entrance door to the studio to facilitate the access.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> A wheelchair accessible toilet is available on the ground floor with a door width of 75 cm. Although accessible, the toilet do not comply yet to the PMR standard toilets.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> In the toilet there is a table that can be use to changing diapers for babies.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> Floor is made of old industrial stones and quite uneven.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> Garden is not yet accessible due to a small threshold in the doorway.</li></ul><ul class="spip"></ul><ul class="spip"><li> We have some office chairs, but mostly sturdy benches and chairs without armrests.</li></ul>
<p><i>Sensory setting:</i></p>
<ul><li> The space has various light conditions, but we do not use strobe or laser lights unless explicitly stated.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> We do not have a noise analyser but the noise level does not usually exceed that of a room full of people. We do not play loud music or other loud noises, unless explicitly stated.</li></ul>
<p><i>Air quality:</i></p>
<ul><li> The studio has big windows on both side and a large garden, and we ventilate it via open windows. We do not have a CO2 monitor or a mask mandate.</li></ul><ul class="spip"><li> The temperature inside is around 20 degrees, but, since we ventilate through open doors, it can easily drop and feel quite cold at times.</li></ul>
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