Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

Post by emreb » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:33 AM UTC

Post by EGreg » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:34 AM UTC

kamray23 wrote: post #39

onion2k wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loaded it on mobile too.. - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive. - it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes - no sound (there's an audio control so I guess there's meant to be..) - the audio control sits over the flags - wildly different text sizes everywhere - so much layout shift - from an error loading the Korean version I think it's running on a platform that tracks what users…

Sound autoplay doesn't really work anymore in modern browsers.

Post by tonis2 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

Post by vosper » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #33

skinkestek wrote: post #17

I'm on mobile. It loads quick. I saw no ads. It was reasonable straight to the point: no explanation about this being grandmothers pie recipe or anything to that effect. (In fact, if you consider the point of the website to be funny it is actually straight to the point.) If it is fast, doesn't track me and provides the answers I need I can put up with some animations. I'd say what we have today is far more problemati…

I loaded it on mobile too.. - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive. - it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes - no sound (there's an audio control so I guess there's meant to be..) - the audio control sits over the flags - wildly different text sizes everywhere - so much layout shift - from an error loading the Korean version I think it's running on a platform that tracks what users…

Post by seaish » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:40 AM UTC

croon wrote: post #78

true_religion wrote: post #25

Someone once told me, “you will know what nostalgia truly is, when you see a younger generations nostalgia and think it’s still shit because you are too old for that to have been your childhood”. The jQuery era is something I’d never want to go back to. Not because jQuery was bad, but because the basic DOM api was so poor, JavaScript was much more limited and incoherent, and webpages made anything outside of text inp…

In this case I could alter that to: "You will know what nostalgia truly is, when you see a younger generations representation of nostalgia and you can point out all the anachronisms in it." Netscape 3 and websites that looked like that: 1996 Geocities: 1994-1999 (so far so good) jQuery: 2006 Blink: 2013