Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

Post by HelloNurse » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 10:59 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 easrng » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

tomcooks wrote: post #157

This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating. Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers. If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuery copy pasted code. And make it IE6 compatible. And use tables for layout. And don't use stackoverflow, caniuse, or an IDE. You'll soon understand how we reached the current state of th…

  // For example, instead of
  $("#somebutton").click(() => alert("Hello"))

  // You would  do
  document.querySelector("#somebutton").addEventListener("click", () => alert("Hello"));
  
  
  // Instead of
  $("#message").text("Important Message")

  // You would  do
  document.querySelector("#message").textContent = "Important Message";
  
  
  // Instead of
  $("#things .thing").css("color", "red")

  // You would  do
  for(let e of document.querySelectorAll("#things .thing")) e.style.color = "red";
  
  
  // Instead of
  await $.ajax("https://httpbin.org/get").then((_1, _2, {responseJSON}) => responseJSON)

  // You would  do
  await fetch("https://httpbin.org/get").then(e => e.json())

Post by hulitu » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

hbbio wrote: post #169

exitb wrote: post #40

The website makes bold claim of being best viewed in Netscape 3. That does not seem to be the case though https://i.imgur.com/WKpmd28.png

Wow, that's the nostalgia at the bottom of your screenshot: "27% of 3182K (at 1.5K/sec, 25:33 remaining)"