Nothing pisses me off like getting a message that some website only supports Chrome in 2020
The one that drives me crazy are websites that say they only support safari on iOS... It’s all safari under the hood.
Yes but a number of features are disabled or buggy on third party browsers that use WKWebView or UIWebView (i.e. basically all of them). A particularly nasty one I ran into once was navigator.sendBeacon being completely broken with HTTPS urls: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51844586/navigator-sendb...
SPAs are an anti-pattern. Let's rebuild html rendering, navigation history, forms, etc, all with Javascript, because it's the hip thing to do.
You're not using that word correctly, since this is not a pattern it's an architecture. Please don't misuse words, especially in a negative context to mean "something I don't like", it cheapens the word in legitimate cases. No comment on whether SPAs are worth anything though, I reserve my opinion.
architecture doesn't contain patterns? architectures don't follow certain patterns?
you've never seen certain architectures that smell because they're not following an established pattern?
> Browsers change. Relying on browser-specific behavior means you’re relying on that one browser at that one point in time. Code to the standard, and test everywhere. I wish this was listed at the top of the list, in the middle, and at the end. It’s super annoying when a site or application isn’t “supported” because it wasn’t tested in a separate browser (i.e. non-Chrome browsers). I know it’s not always easy with a…
> with the browser vendors working together to be compatible with each other
The one with the greatest market share is incentivized to the contrary in order to cement their position.
This sentiment frustrates me. The majority of web developers today are application developers. I've spent the past 5 years delivering business applications via the web as a platform. The web has a lot of advantage as a platform: no install, cross platform, networked by default. But the web was not designed as an application platform, so making it into one is complex. Business applications have inherent complexity as…
Complexity in web products is largely the result of developers who don’t care because they need to ship a product only if that product is written in an extremely familiar way. That’s a product of people who don’t know what they are doing opposed to inherent technological impediments. I form this opinion as a professional web developer with 20 years experience.
I respect your experience, but that does not match up with what I've seen, and what I've seen by proxy networking with other developers in my area. I do personally think simplicity is a virtue. I always try to collaborate with our business team to deliver only what is needed, in the most straightforward way. But if the customer needs a 20 field form, with logical dependencies and validation between fields, as well as an interface for searching/filtering/editing entries, there is only so much that can be simplified. And yes I know all of that can be done with vanilla JS, but I've done it both ways and I prefer the framework.
Seems like a list of every web development ideal that gets upvoted on Hacker News. Still, I think the list can pretty much condensed down to one point: Use whatever technology is appropriate for this site or web app. Because a lot of developers seem to have a 'when all you have is a hammer' attitude towards web development. They learn React/Vue/Angular/whatever, then seemingly decide everything they will ever build w…
> They learn React/Vue/Angular/whatever, then seemingly decide everything they will ever build will use that framework, regardless of whether it's the right tool for the job. At least where I live, small businesses contract with agencies that develop React sites for them, and suddenly these non-IT companies are owners of expensive and hard to maintain websites that they don't, and shouldn't need to, know the first th…
Serious question: if the business just needs a static site, why are they paying tons of money for bespoke software engineering? Just use one of the millions of good-enough and free site builders out there.
1) Nobody has any idea what they're doing 2) If you think you know more than your manager – you are absolutely right 3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge 4) React was made by an OCaml programmer 5) if you want to be that good, learn emerging languages (all of them) 5) don't optimize for money too soon, if you follow these instructions you will quadruple soon enough 6) Whatever your problem is that is holding you back – drinking, eating, whatever – fix it today 7) Learn Clojure
Ironically, it uses tumblr, so the damn back button is captured (try getting back here). This is my fave: > Infinite scrolls are inhumane. People need to be able to reach “the end.” There are forms of eternal torment described in religious texts that are less mean.
Ironically, it uses tumblr, so the damn back button is captured (try getting back here). This is my fave: > Infinite scrolls are inhumane. People need to be able to reach “the end.” There are forms of eternal torment described in religious texts that are less mean.