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Loads of these websites are valid businesses and the “minimal” visual aesthetic serves their purpose. Yet loads of comments here criticise them because they ar
by creativenolo 4y ago
Loads of these websites are valid businesses and the “minimal” visual aesthetic serves their purpose.
Yet loads of comments here criticise them because they are not “minimal” in use of resource (defaults), “minimal” in use of information presentation, or “minimal” in structure, as if these are the only true minimal.
All these websites would fail their business intent if they stripped back to these ideals (a branding agency with no css: c’mon), and this gallery would fail, and this gallery wouldn’t have generated the interest to make the front page of hacker news.
I for one appreciate this type of content in the hacker news mix. But the comments can often be blinked engineering drivel.
- andrepd 4y agoI hardly think that people complain about css styling, it's more about 4MB of js taking 20 seconds to render a news story, less usable than plain html+css.
- creativenolo 4y agoAgain, this is not a post on a gallery of websites that don’t have 4mb of JavaScript. Is the fact that they do have 4mb an interesting or novel discussion point. As in, I remember once was going to invite this branding agency to pitch for the job because their website demonstrated creative immersion, craft and sensibility but then I noticed it has 4mb of JavaScript so I didn’t. I’m sure these websites could be optimised greatly. But time, budgets and scope don’t include it because the business need isn’t there. Maybe a more interesting talking point, from an engineering perspective, would be why there is no product value in that.