Comment by nosioptar
6 months ago
Web developers that fuck with the browser's functionality deserve to spend eternity stepping on rusty legos while barefoot with James Blunt blaring in the background.
6 months ago
Web developers that fuck with the browser's functionality deserve to spend eternity stepping on rusty legos while barefoot with James Blunt blaring in the background.
When I look at disciplines other than my own, I can recognize the skill and elegance that goes into it, even though I don't have those skills myself.
But when I look at the output of web development, and I see smooth scrolling, scrolljacking, excessive whitespace, artificial latency before UI popups ... I just don't get it. How can an entire field, as a default practice, intentionally make things bad?
Web development merged with the advertising industry right after tripod starting showing ads.
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ads/
There has to be more to it. Even services I pay for (the rare ones that don’t also spam my experience with ads) pull from a grab bag of bizarre user hostile quirks.
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