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Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#53
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.

And thank whatever deity you may or may not believe in that this changed. Yes, it sucks for these traditional websites, but advertisers abused it so much it hurt.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#55
post #41

You can still make shit websites. Lots of people do. The problem is, they're more fun to make than to visit. So don't get huffy if potential visitors go to social media instead.

>So don't get huffy if potential visitors go to social media instead. Which is also shit, albeit more expensive shit. Facebook looks like a Fischer Price toy due for a recall.

We prefer to call it "appropriate for the key demographic".

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#57

Hey why is it that all these sites are always about how the old web was good and we should make things like the old web, but the only thing they ever make is stuff about how we should make things like the old web. I mean I would expect them to after making the first site suggesting you do it like this, to make a number of sites showing the aesthetic put to other subjects of interest. Like, Carl's Icosahedron Spot on…

I browsed a bit and found this nice index on Neocities:

https://districts.neocities.org/

It's almost all content and little "make the web old", yet it still draws on the old and fun aspect of the early internet.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#59
post #24

Drop the annoying music and it's perfect. Beats the "modern" gibberish which requires server grade hardware to be semi-useful(and that is coming from someone who's main computer hasw a dual-socket motherboard with two 14-core xeons filling those sockets).

The music is actually straight to the point.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#60

Yeah that‘s the good shit! Wait, what… JQuery?!

I still use jQuery but https://umbrellajs.com too. And native DOM API as well.

I think the point wasn't that jquery was old, but it was way too new for the rest of the page. Everything on it screams mid 90s, and then jquery which is a good 10 years later.
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