[throwaway14356]

i just write everything from scratch every time. (so don't take my advice)

I notice that if I lower the bar and allow half baked hackish solutions to slip in, beyond some point, upkeep consumes infinite time. There seems no way back from that besides starting from scratch.

There is no good reason for front end things to break. I can only think of document.writeln() but who in his right mind...