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by TeMPOraL 3859 days ago
Web apps can be excused, but most web sites? Not really. What exactly happened that made it not practical to write simple sites? Did browsers suddenly stop rendering HTML unless you generate it in JavaScript?

It's not business needs, it's cargo-cult web development. Going with the latest trends without a moment to stop whether it makes sense or is actually what the users want.
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Too 3859 days ago
What exactly is the issue with having the HTML generated with javascript? You can still run "view source", overridden CSS or Greasemonkey on it...
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TeMPOraL 3859 days ago
Why do you need to generate HTML with JS in the first place? There rarely is a need to do so on a website. There's definitely no need for the e.g. loading content of a blog post dynamically just to achieve a fade-in effect[0]. And yet, most of the modern web practices is silly stuff like that.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10646025

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