> I miss the good ol’ days. Today we have abstractions on top of abstractions on top of JavaScript, of all things It seems I learnt HTML just between these two

> I miss the good ol’ days. Today we have abstractions on top of abstractions on top of JavaScript, of all things It seems I learnt HTML just between these two eras. After the  , 1px spacers and tables, and before the piles of abstractions. People cared about doing well formed XHTML and having those W3C Valid XHTML badges, and also those "install Firefox" buttons. This was short so today everything looks ugly to me, old and new, in different ways. I still use (polyglot) XHTML5 (HTML5 if I don't control everything being input) and avoid frontend frameworks and web fonts when I get to decide. This is a world where implementing a search bar for people who haven't discovered CTRL+F yet takes 30 lines of dumb Javascript and filters 200 items in 1 second on a slow computer without any caching trick and that does not require minifiers and bundlers. Which does not actually sound impressive, or shouldn't anyway. A world where when you disable Javascript, the page is still perfectly readable. A world where a silly mistake in the HTML markup is noticed. To build an actual web application where it does not makes much sense to have the content as a web page, I started liking Svelte but I'll still at least consider doing things by manipulating the DOM directly before deciding.