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   The Natural Philosopher to kouya   
   Re: The Web (HTML) Sux   
   25 Dec 25 03:30:07   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 25/12/2025 02:01, kouya wrote:   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anybody can criticize what experts do, not anybody can actually do   
   >> better.   
   >   
   > You think those are experts? Experts in money and being cheap, I suppose,   
   > but not experts in web development and design. Have you actually looked   
   > into most javascript-riddled websites? A majority of the things they rely   
   > on the client browser to generate could be done with basic HTML and maybe   
   > some CSS.   
   >   
   > These web designers don't actually know what they are doing, they just know   
   > what everyone else is doing. This is evident by the amount of JS frameworks   
   > there are that make entirely simple things incredibly complex. If you   
   > actually know how to make websites, your job pays you not to.   
   >   
   > It's a similar problem in the general software space. We used to have   
   > programs run as efficient as possible on little resources, but there are so   
   > many languages now that have power users that you'll find software made to   
   > be as efficient as possible do an insane amount of processing at once but   
   > it is made in python. Nobody knows what they're doing, they just know what   
   > everybody else is doing.   
      
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