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by runawaybottle
2286 days ago
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Once upon a time every website layout was defined via the Table element. Your side bar would be a cell spanning multiple rows, and inside the sidebar you’d have another nested table that defined more layout. The shift to table-less divs came almost as a massive over-correction to the abuse of nested tables. We are in similar egregious territory now days with how we’re doing styled components directly in the javascript and totally forgoing some of the principles of CSS (we are effectively in-lining styles , for everything). That’s alright, we go through this upending in frontend every 3 years anyway. |
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If that weren't bad enough, let's discuss the fundamental core of the web: links.
Links are dead. They are buried under a mountain of SPA walled garden jank, teased at (but never granted) on Pinterest or Quora or LinkedIn or Facebook, or out there scamming users with shortened URL services. Corporate users are subjected to annual security training lessons where they are taught never to trust links (email, text message, or otherwise) because the alternative, training users to understand domain names, is just so impractical that we have all given up. Google gave up, with Chrome. They don't even want to show a domain. It's that bad and awful.
To give you an example of how shit it all really is, I recently had to look up an issue related to a Microsoft product. A quick Google search lead me to a number of Stackoverflow and blog posts on the issue. I found a number of links, pointing to Microsoft's bug tracker (links from just a year or two ago). And here's the kicker: all the links 404. The bug tracker is simply not there anymore. This is Microsoft we're talking about. They have given up on links. They have so given up on links that they can't even be bothered to let the user know what happened to those links.
Things are significantly worse on the mobile web. I would estimate that a good 90% of the web doesn't work on mobile in any sort of way that would delight a user. It's more that users just deal with this massive pile of shit. Watch someone use a mobile web browser sometime. Watch the nonsense they have to deal with. The janky-ass scroll popup sluggish ad-infested dumpster fire. All of it.