[mileza]

> Note that since our technical discussion is a conversation. I don’t expect a perfect answer from anyone. If I hear some right keywords, I know that the candidate knows the concept, and I try to push them in the right direction.

You seemed to have missed the most important point in this interview. I agree with you that rote memorization is useless, but the goal here is to have a technical discussion on topics like mobile design, accessibility and SEO. And if you're not willing to have this kind of discussion you're doing the interviewer a favor by walking away.

You also don't need to know how to code those by heart, but you need to view at a glance what their use is if you ever need to diagnose an issue, even if it's generated by a framework, because a framework may not generate the proper code for you.