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It’s beginning to feel like the HTML-CSS-JS vs JS-JS-JS war is a class war. If your project has a budget of millions, “of course” you should use a complex build process and a JavaScript framework that handles everything (according to the folks who believe this). The pressure…
The pressure to re-architect the web itself to conform to these ideas, and abandon the original design principles (HTML as a base, super robust, works with *all* devices; CSS for styling on top of that, with a cascade; JS for bonus fanciness) is fierce. Feels like a class war.
Rich vs poor.
Massive teams vs everyone else.
Building a web that works for everyone vs a web that only works for those with expensive new devices and no disabilities.
Architecting a web that favors massive corporations and pushes out less-powerful voices and ideas.
Massive teams vs everyone else.
Building a web that works for everyone vs a web that only works for those with expensive new devices and no disabilities.
Architecting a web that favors massive corporations and pushes out less-powerful voices and ideas.
It does feel like a war. A war for the future of the web. When I read “the standards bodies don’t care about web developers” I see someone wielding a weapon in this war — pushing to get rid of the design principles that made the web for everyone. To give the powerful more power.
