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by bradhe 878 days ago
Man. It's 2024 and we're still talking about ugly-ass HTML. That's amazing.
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HTML itself is beautiful. Show me a better way to express varied words and images with an eye for creative layout and design the way great books play with this content.

Every design system build on top of HTML is just an abstraction that adds layers of complexity whilst reducing the inherent flexibility of HTML. It's much like the years when every SPA framework rebuilt the concept of a back-button and page history, or standard HTML form inputs. All were shittier versions of what the browser provided (even if imperfectly at times).