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Maybe. I'm glad FF exists, am using it all the time on desktop. But here's another perspective: FF led an audience towards Google's web of shit. It would've be
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
Maybe. I'm glad FF exists, am using it all the time on desktop.
But here's another perspective: FF led an audience towards Google's web of shit. It would've been entirely possible for Moz to have said no to the latest fad; then, by the power of having a dominating browser in the field, the web could've been preserved as a medium for relatively simple text-mostly information. I, for one, am interested in individual info and personal sites rather than thousands of nice-looking content farms with tracking.
I'm particularly puzzled by those CSS apologists always painting a naive creationist story about how much we progressed etc etc. Yet, realistically, CSS is so bad, like consider-your-career-choices bad, that I have a hard time accepting this as a result of so much energy of so many intelligent people. CSS will go down as this generation of web "developers" retire, since it's an irrational, overcomplicated piece of shit only understandable in discourse as it has happened. Why did I put "developers" in quotes? Because the web was a vision for easy good-enough self-publishing for layman, not an "industry".
Saying this as someone who's a sucker for design, and sucks at it, too.
- strbean 5y agoIf a camel is a horse designed by committee, CSS is the product of 10 generations of camel breeding by different committees, followed by some rounds of competing evil geniuses creating genetically modified variants. We should also keep in mind that the use cases have completely and wildly changed. That being said, it does seem like we are overdue for a clean slate.