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by Mystery-Machine 11 days ago
What a great article!

> Shipping them 20MB of javascript before we even render a form would be a ridiculous thing to do.

> I have seen teams waste person-months of effort wrangling React validation libraries.

> It is not acceptable to bounce users on old browsers, users with bad network connections, users using assistive technologies.

> Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now.

The other day I added a fix so that the website would work in a PS5. Before that I didn’t even know that PS5 has a browser.