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People have always made bad, unusable websites. If we wanted to prevent them from doing that we should have never moved away from Gopher. I write SPAs for a li
by ng12 10y ago
People have always made bad, unusable websites. If we wanted to prevent them from doing that we should have never moved away from Gopher.
I write SPAs for a living and a lot of the technologies mentioned in this thread are a godsend. Whenever somebody expresses the above sentiment I feel it's only because they never had to maintain a complicated web app.
- bandrami 10y agothey never had to maintain a complicated web app Correct: we used to write websites that were as simple as it was feasible for them to be, with as few client-side requirements as possible. It's the whole idea that "complicated web apps" are good things that I dislike.
- ng12 10y agoDo you think Facebook could exist if we eschewed building complicated things on the web? The alternative is not building a simpler website, it's building desktop applications. Just because some developers choose the wrong tools for the job doesn't mean the tools aren't necessary.
- bandrami 10y agoSure. For that matter I use the mbasic Facebook view, which has zero client-side processing. Makes for a much better experience.