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The article and every comment in this thread thereof is a thermonuclear illustration of (part of) why I hate web development. This is what so many of my peers t
by vsnf 3y ago
The article and every comment in this thread thereof is a thermonuclear illustration of (part of) why I hate web development. This is what so many of my peers told me was the way to develop applications. Nevermind that the desktop frameworks, quirky though they were at times, had none of these issues and didn’t force some absolutely wild hacks on their users.
I will never not be salty about the DOM, CSS, and all the wonky apis to control them. JavaScript in comparison was the least of the sins of web dev.
- handy2000 3y agoIn an odd way, I miss the time when web dev was so quirky and unpredictable. It was a never-ending process of experimentation, puzzle solving, discovery, and, once you figure out a hacky way to do something as basic as a 3-column layout, very gratifying. I guess for me it was more of a creative outlet than just a job.
- amatecha 3y agoYeah and hilariously, being able to navigate and accurately exploit the quirks of browsers could give your web development business a competitive edge. My colleagues and I had it as a source of pride to come up with a complete stack of tedious "hacks" to make even the most ambitious designs possible, in the mid-2000's. Our designers were able to basically make whatever they wanted (within reason) and have it work out. The excitement of getting some layout working that today would be trivial... ahh, fun times :) haha