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If all you see on the internet is shit, it's probably your browsing habits that are to blame.

• cturner 19y ago
  From one perspective, the kludge of DOM, CSS, HTML, synchronous communication and occasional and disgustingly jury-rigged asynchronous communication is shit, and the results are as well, so it's pretty hard to avoid. I built an online application once where on returning to an area of the application it remembered what you'd been doing and all of your data was set up. Numerous people complained about it - colleagues and customers - and all eventually agreed that it was fantastic. But it was so different to their expectations of what a web app should do (i.e. strung-together cgi) that their instinct was to get it purged. The web does nasty things to our brains, and our ideas of quality. Great post.