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I agree with that. Doing layouts with HTML and CSS is too open, flexible, which means you have to do everything yourself from scratch every single time. Anothe
by fiatjaf 5y ago
I agree with that. Doing layouts with HTML and CSS is too open, flexible, which means you have to do everything yourself from scratch every single time.
Another thing you have to do from scratch is the eye candy aspect of every webapp. I guess the web is more flexible in the sense that you can do anything you want UI-wise, but honestly, how much time and work and money is spent on making pretty webapps? How much more productive our society would be if the useful tools were just tools and not masterpieces of design?
- kaba0 5y agoAnd my biggest gripe is that the product you would get out of the aforementioned frameworks without any design would look.. ok, usable. But even if you just want a website that is not just a bunch of text (though even that require some css to make it readable smh) you have to get quite invested into CSS, or at least bring in a css lib that provides you with some basic design. Otherwise it will look like it is the remains of some website from ARPANET.
- lvass 5y agoI've done pure markup + classless CSS a few times. It's nice, readable and really the way I think the web should look like. But then you realize you don't get paid for doing good things on the web. I couldn't handle this feeling and just quit front-end work entirely except for pages I own.