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HTML and CSS "won" on the web. No one in their right mind would call them good or even suitable for their main use case.
by geon 10y ago
HTML and CSS "won" on the web. No one in their right mind would call them good or even suitable for their main use case.
- dasil003 10y agoOf course they are. Most things on the web are documents. The fact that it is abused for SPAs means that yes they are contorted and abused, but that is inevitable because Gall's Law. It's easy sit in an armchair and point out all the warts on specific tech, but if you were to build a better solution to broad technology segments like this, and magically get adoption, you'd find that you only understood 5% of the application space, and your better version is subject to whole swaths of criticism that you didn't anticipate. Better to find one small/simple thing you can do well and build from there.
- YCode 10y agoWhat's more suitable for their main use case? What is their main use case?