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Comment by re-thc

18 days ago

> I don't much care about the intricacies of using auto-margin, flexbox, css grid, align-content, etc.

You do / did care, e.g. browser support.

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t-writescode  18 days ago

This sounds like a front-end dev that understands the intricacies of all of this when, again, this person is saying "I just want the content centered".

  • re-thc  18 days ago

    > again, this person is saying "I just want the content centered".

    You can't just want. It always backfires. It's called being ignorant. There are always consequences. I just want to cross the road without caring too. Oh the cars might just hit me. Doesn't matter?

    > This sounds like a front-end dev that understands the intricacies of all of this

    That's the person that's supposed to do this job? Sounds bog standard. What's the problem?

  • bawolff  18 days ago

    At some point this is just silly.

    If you're assuming the user knows nothing then all tasks are hard. Ever try putting an image in a page if you don't know HTML? It's pretty tricky.

    • t-writescode  18 days ago

      At some point, sure; but there is always value in comprehending why someone might find an existing flow overly obtuse and/or frustrating when they "just want to do a simple thing".

      To imagine otherwise reminds me of The Infamous Dropbox Comment.

      Addendum: to wit, whole companies, like SquareSpace and Wix, exist because web dev is a pain and WYSWIG editors help a lot

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