If anything this illustrates how convulated and painful web development has become. The design was that HTML was HTML and the client managed all the implementa

If anything this illustrates how convulated and painful web development has become. The design was that HTML was HTML and the client managed all the implementation details. Over time that got ruined by wildly different implementations, introducing non standard tags and so on. I'm glad I moved away from it before mobile versions of sites became a neccessity. Having to do all this work to cater for members that have a mobile device made by a specific manufacturer just emphasises that the whole thing has gone totally off the rails and completely awry. The ratio of actual information you read vs the amount of cruft that comes with it to display it is insane. And it's been a major issue for a long time. It was painful enough in the 'if !ie6'...era. At what point does the ongoing cost of presenting and maintaining the information exceed the value of the information itself? However, this is the reality of the online world we live in today. It also makes you appreciate the simplicity, usability and maintenance-ease of HN itself. You're already into the actual content only 3 lines in.