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So many companies make stupid, gratuitous changes that break perfectly acceptable browsers. For what? They're not making browsing any faster - no, instead, they
by johnklos 4y ago
So many companies make stupid, gratuitous changes that break perfectly acceptable browsers. For what? They're not making browsing any faster - no, instead, they're adding things that make the newest, fastest computers we can buy take a long, jerky pause when we click on something, or try to scroll too soon...
I think it's time to call out shitty web developers who are probably contributing to this because they want job security. The web doesn't need generation after generation of significantly different browsers every few years, nor do we need web sites that very literally take more RAM and more CPU resources than entire OSes.
It's all bullshit, and there's never a good reason for any web site to take hundreds of megabytes of memory and take seconds to do things on a machine that can do tens of billions of instructions per second.
- gorjusborg 4y agoI feel just as disgusted by stuff like this, but more at the industry incentives than developers as people. There is a type of developer that adds more technical garbage to the pile, but their ranks grow when their peers see they are rewarded for that behavior. It is the game that is messed up, many are just playing by the rules to 'win'.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoI feel like this kind of thing happens as SWEs became commodified. Just imagine if we were still a tight knit community of people in basements, we could simply work our way through the social network and yell at whoever made such bad choices.