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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.              'Twas ever thus. "We all say it, so it must be true"...Bandar Logic...                     --       "The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll       look exactly the same afterwards."              Billy Connolly              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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