As an amateur web designer in the 90s and early 2000s, this speaks to me. I stopped web development when CSS became popular and I couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Is there a petition I can sign to scrap all this nonsense modern web progress and go back to that beautiful, dial-up friendly HTML?
The web is beyond bloated.
The heavy reliance on JavaScript has suck the joy out of browsing the web for me
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* HTML WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN CLASSES
* YEARS OF MARKUP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for styling beyond \
* Wanted to center content for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ""
* "Yes please align that content exactly 32.89% left. Please align 59.0px down"
- Statements dreams up by the utterly deranged
LOOK at what FRONT-END Devs have been demanding your Respect for all this time.
(This is REAL CSS. done by REAL Devs)
[Three screenshots of CSS code, each one marked with a number of red question marks. The first screenshot has five question marks and reads as follows:]
h1 {
font-size: .75em;
position: absolute;
bottom: 20px;
width: 94%;
left: 2%;
}
[The second screenshot has eight question marks and reads as follows:]
*{
font-size: 30px;
}
q::before {
content: "«";
color: blue;
]
q::after {
content: "»";
color: red;
}
[The third screenshot has sixteen question marks and reads as follows:]
#header ul a:focus, #header ul a:active,
#header ul a:hover {
background-color: #5A5A5A;
outline-color: -moz-use-text-color:
outline-style: none;
outline-width: medium;
}
[The screenshots end.]
They have played us for absolute fools
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Oh, got that layout looking all nice and modern?
Be a shame if somebody... tried to email it!
Really though it's a shame that so many devs still try to treat the web like print where they have full control over the layout at any given time. Even after the death of Flash and the introduction of smartphones and their need for fluid layouts. Meanwhile concepts like progressive enhancement got left behind.
At least we've got flexbox and grid now.
The web killed the Internet.
JavaScript killed the web.
CSS defiled its corpse.
Honestly and without any trace of irony, I wish CSS would die and be replaced by maybe half a dozen new HTML tags to support a few specific responsive design patterns.
CSS runs counter to the concept of HTML. Web design used to be inherently user-centric. The designer was not supposed to have much of a say in how it looked on a client's system, because that was up to the client. The designer only provided high-level hints like "this is a paragraph" or "this is emphasized". The browser decided how a paragraph should be displayed, which fonts to use, etc.
Over time, visual designers clawed more and more control from the user, much to the detriment of the entire rest of the world.
99% of web sites would be better if they conformed to basic semantic markup. Low-level design parameters should not exist on the web.
It's a straight line from CSS to Google's new trusted web bullshit. It's all about wresting control away from the user and giving it to the site designer. Fuck you, site designer. My eyeballs do not belong to you.
Are you even a real dev if you haven't used marquee and blink?
CSS? More like CSS-illy.
The problem is that HTML was not designed to be a layout description. Your browser was to decide.
So, to force HTML to be a layout description rather than simple markup, we have this mess.
HTML != TeX
You're never supposed to use pixels in CSS anyway; you should bare minimum use percentages to account for different screen sizes to make the designs responsive and not look terrible on different screen sizes.
The future of HTML is classless, stateless and moneyless! 🏴
As a frontend dev I hate frontend. CSS is not even the main issue.
Fuck Jest and having to mock libraries. I'm gonna go backend in Go or something like that ASAP.
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