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Most young Javascript devs have no experience of hacking "DHTML" for Netscape Navigator and sundry incompatible versions of IE back in the late 90s. That was th
by cutler 7y ago
Most young Javascript devs have no experience of hacking "DHTML" for Netscape Navigator and sundry incompatible versions of IE back in the late 90s. That was the real low point of front-end development. Nothing comes close to those life-sapping days so enjoy the immense resources you have today, particularly evergreen browsers following a standard.
- timw4mail 7y agoAnd yet, with a little thought, we could use those hard-won compatible apis more directly, and for the vast majority of websites, write less code, configuration, etc. But we still act as though the very basic DOM functionality is some arcane art that has to be "fixed" by a library like jQuery, or as is more common now, an entire stack of large tools. Having done paid work with React-stack apps, and personal projects with vanilla JS, I still see more advantage with less code on the vanilla side.