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Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look? A lot of it is monkey-see-monkey-do. And realted, the wid

Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look? A lot of it is monkey-see-monkey-do. And realted, the widespread use of common frameworks instead of people actually understanding how web sites work and doing their own programming. I build a web site for a hospital that was fast and responsive and accessible. A manager complained that it didn't look like a "real" web site because the pages loaded instantly. She wanted me to put in a mechanism so that every time someone clicked on a link a loading spinner would appear for a few seconds before the next page loaded. Because that's what "real" web sites do.

cyph3rpvnk 2y ago
That's atrocious. I think a big part of it is the merging of websites (purely informational) and web applications (programs with IO). The lines have blurred over the years.
perardi 2y ago
Wow, I’ve never had someone ask me to purposefully build in latency. That’s nuts. Maybe she was responding to how jarring page transitions can be. I’ve gotten some good use out of the View Transitions API in a product I’m building. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...) It’s a server-side rendered multi-page app, and throwing in just a bit of view transition CSS to get a nice fade effect when you go to a different page does feel nice.
johnisgood 2y ago
> I build a web site for a hospital that was fast and responsive and accessible. A manager complained that it didn't look like a "real" web site because the pages loaded instantly. She wanted me to put in a mechanism so that every time someone clicked on a link a loading spinner would appear for a few seconds before the next page loaded. Because that's what "real" web sites do. Oh my god, that is awful and ridiculous.

cyph3rpvnk 2y ago

That's atrocious. I think a big part of it is the merging of websites (purely informational) and web applications (programs with IO). The lines have blurred over the years.

perardi 2y ago

Wow, I’ve never had someone ask me to purposefully build in latency. That’s nuts. Maybe she was responding to how jarring page transitions can be. I’ve gotten some good use out of the View Transitions API in a product I’m building. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...) It’s a server-side rendered multi-page app, and throwing in just a bit of view transition CSS to get a nice fade effect when you go to a different page does feel nice.

johnisgood 2y ago

> I build a web site for a hospital that was fast and responsive and accessible. A manager complained that it didn't look like a "real" web site because the pages loaded instantly. She wanted me to put in a mechanism so that every time someone clicked on a link a loading spinner would appear for a few seconds before the next page loaded. Because that's what "real" web sites do. Oh my god, that is awful and ridiculous.