Emails still make use of the transparent pixel. It’s not about making use of archaic conventions. It’s more about hiring competent people who can perform analy

Emails still make use of the transparent pixel. It’s not about making use of archaic conventions. It’s more about hiring competent people who can perform analytics without disruption. That, though, like so much of the article, requires tremendous wishful thinking. The commercial web is always going to be slow and bloated because the standards and browsers permit and tolerate unbelievable levels of gross negligence. The people doing the work also typically have absolutely no idea what they are doing and are super happy when they can just get text to display on the screen using the worlds largest frameworks. The incompetence is so real that I refuse to do that kind of work any more. There is just so much whining and crying at the mere suggestion of mild improvements. It took half a year of unemployment last year, but fortunately I was able to find a new line of work that benefits from my prior programming experience. Maybe in the next few years AI will replace the whiners that require 10mb of code to put text on screen.