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I always found Vue and React to be not good enough abstraction layers - you still need to tweak and fiddle with the layer below from time to time to make anything work properly.
As an experiment, I started https://wordsandbuttons.online/ in plain hand-crafted HTML+CSS+JS (JS for the interactive bits only). Every page is self-sufficient, there are no dependencies, no dynamic data exchange, no HTML generators, - nothing. And it works so well, I don't really want any frameworks now. It's perfectly malleable - I can make every page do exactly what I want it to. It's lean and fast - every page ev…
Your site looks nice, but one comment I'll make about your coding style is that you (or anyone getting inspired from your code) should probably switch away from innerHTML as the default choice for DOM modification. In a lot of otherwise useful contexts it is an HTML injection hole. (For the record it doesn't seem to be a security issue for the kind of content you have made, but better kill the habit before it becomes a problem.)
For a while I used document.createElement and friends to generate injection-free DOM, but that style takes a lot more typing than innerHTML usually does. Eventually I made a tiny library for easing the job, and I haven't looked back since. I don't think anyone else uses it, but so far it is definitely worth it for the one happy user. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker
I'm interested, how close to reality is this view of front end devs?
In my day job, it's difficult to get through a project without encountering WCAG 2.x or some other accessibility criteria. Which usually forces you to be more semantic in order to avoid having to be more explicit using aria to tell screen readers etc what your special version of HTML means. Is this so uncommon? This comes up as a contractual obligation all the time in educational products, is this not the case in most other sectors?
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> Meanwhile, HTML is parsed by much more than a browser. Any examples?
Bots and email clients. Microsoft word. Libre Office.
Unpopular opinion... but I think this is a too limited view of the web. My contrary opinion is that the actually important feature of the web is the URL, and the important feature of the browser is that it provides a sandboxed platform for running untrusted code without a builtin "walled garden moral police". It would be nice if operating systems would be exactly that, but for some reason "commercial" OS vendors are…
Apple is going down this route with code signing and granular permissions with Macintosh applications that don’t have to be part of the Mac App Store and there is still whining from geeks that this is leading to a walled garden, even though there are approved ways to work around it.
It's the same with Electron apps by the way, those wouldn't exist if operating systems would come with cross-platform UI frameworks that are actually better than the unholy mix of HTML+CSS+JS. But Microsoft, Apple etc... had decades to get their act together without delivering.
One of the problems with Electron is that it’s the same interface everywhere. I don’t want the same interface on a Mac that I have on Windows.
Unpopular opinion... but I think this is a too limited view of the web. My contrary opinion is that the actually important feature of the web is the URL, and the important feature of the browser is that it provides a sandboxed platform for running untrusted code without a builtin "walled garden moral police". It would be nice if operating systems would be exactly that, but for some reason "commercial" OS vendors are…
It would be nice if operating systems would be exactly that, but for some reason "commercial" OS vendors are not able or willing to provide a safe "native" sandbox completely uncoupled from curated app stores. Apple is going down this route with code signing and granular permissions with Macintosh applications that don’t have to be part of the Mac App Store and there is still whining from geeks that this is leading t…
They haven't done it because it doesn't bring any benefits to the greedy corps, and apple is the worst offender with their dumbed down, shackled os
Are there really people out there who know and understand Vue or React, but not HTML? I always found Vue and React to be not good enough abstraction layers - you still need to tweak and fiddle with the layer below from time to time to make anything work properly.
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It would be nice if operating systems would be exactly that, but for some reason "commercial" OS vendors are not able or willing to provide a safe "native" sandbox completely uncoupled from curated app stores. Apple is going down this route with code signing and granular permissions with Macintosh applications that don’t have to be part of the Mac App Store and there is still whining from geeks that this is leading t…
I'm sorry but you have to be special kind of delusional to think apple is doing something to move away from walled garden lol. They haven't done it because it doesn't bring any benefits to the greedy corps, and apple is the worst offender with their dumbed down, shackled os
So how is MacOS - a real certified Unix OS “dumbed down”?
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A Web page is a document. No it's not. It never was. Even a long time ago when websites were static things rendered by the browser once and then left alone there was always a tree of nodes underlying everything. The only thing that's changed in the past three decades is that now when we make websites and web apps we often ship a little JS application that lets the user modify the underlying tree. That's what the web…
Single page applications are the corporate web. The profit web. The web that exists to squeeze information and money out of you without ever sharing or exposing any of itself. SPA are a cancer on the web that aren't going back in the bottle. Corps are gonna corp and institutions will follow.
But you, the single web dev, don't have to take this bullshit design philosophy home with you. Just because you have to shovel manure at work doesn't mean it's beautiful or that you need to bring the shovel home for personal projects. Get paid for shoveling shit. At home make real web pages.