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I like to think the whole problem with web development is that it is popular. Almost all of the exclusive web design/script people I have met are essentially te

by jheriko 15y ago

I like to think the whole problem with web development is that it is popular. Almost all of the exclusive web design/script people I have met are essentially terrible at what they do - I think this happened because the web is so popular and so new that the good engineers and designers are so few and far between that their direction is diluted by the masses. Hopefully it will right itself over time. Ultimately the tools will mature to the point where what the data representation is beneath them will mean nothing to these kinds of consumers. (e.g. how you save your photos as .jpg, .tga or whatever and usually care less about the details).

Fluxx 15y ago
Most sites use an HTML page to launch a JS-driven app because HTML as a presentation medium is not as responsive and lack the UX elegance that one can achieve with Javascript. It's simply a technology stack that works better at solving the job. The main problem is that everyone is reinventing the wheel to deliver that kind of experience with custom JS code that augments the DOM in different ways. If browsers and the W3C worked out a way to deliver a similar UX over something standardized that browsers, crawlers and other consumers of the web could rely on, that would get used.