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When did beauty become something we loathe? Any attempt to make something look nice invites scorn from the programmer community. Get out of here with your styli
by dorkwood 7y ago
When did beauty become something we loathe? Any attempt to make something look nice invites scorn from the programmer community. Get out of here with your styling and your white space, we only want to see black text on a white background.
I mean, I get it -- it's about load times, readability, accessibility, yadda yadda. But does that really mean everything has to look like shit? Why is it a binary choice?
"Well, I actually think that motherfuckingwebsite looks good. It's beautiful in its simplicity."
Fair call, there's no accounting for taste. But does this attitude also extend to, say, public spaces? What about architecture? Should a house be designed like motherfuckingwebsite.com?
- braneloop 7y agoIf a house is hard to live in, does it really matter how beautiful it is?
- carlmr 7y agoYou can make beautiful static websites with almost no extra load. Just add a little CSS. Using e.g. Hugo you can generate nice static websites from markdown that are compact but not ugly.
- dorkwood 7y agoLook, I wouldn't want to live in a "beautiful" house that didn't have a bathroom. But your response also kind of demonstrates my point, which is that somewhere along the way we decided that beauty was the antithesis of usability. My suggestion is that they can coexist.