[matth3]

I've not been a frontend dev for well over a decade but I knew the meaning of all these meta tags. Back then I think it'd be pretty rare to find a good frontend developer who couldn't say what these were.

Have things changed so much that knowledge of meta tags is specialist now?

Assuming this interview was for a front end role that is.

[krapp]

>Have things changed so much that knowledge of meta tags is specialist now?

Yes. More or less all web development now involves generating HTML with a language that compiles to javascript and a framework. No one even looks at, much less directly interacts with, fundamental web code anymore, and HTML has become esoteric "low level" knowledge like assembly language.

[matth3]

But we've always generated the html using other languages, still needed to have a pretty decent idea of how it works. I find it hard to believe that's all redundant now in quite the same way knowledge of assembly is when your a python dev for example.

Like take the open graph meta tags for example, for certain websites it'd be a big oversight to leave them out because you never bothered to learn what they were.

I don't know if all this makes for a decent interview. Just blows my mind that people deem it too low level to have to care about, but what do I know anymore, it's been a real long time since I made a web page.