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0 pointschrshawkes6y ago0 comments

Disagree. Dumb is doing the same thing over and over again and creating new tooling to do the same thing over and over but with added dependencies and frameworks. The fundamentals of web development have barely changed but the flavor of the month way of doing the same thing is constant.

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larrywright6y ago· 2 in thread

HTML and css are way too low level to be productive in, in my opinion. Especially when dealing with wide ranges of screen sizes, browsers, and platforms. The only way I’m interested in touching the stuff is if there are tools to alleviate the pain.

Caveat: not a UI developer, I’ve mostly done backend work And DevOps for quite some time.

wolco6y ago

HTML and CSS are too low level? Does such a tool like dreamweaver with response rendering exist?

It's an interesting concept.

larrywright6y ago

I base my comment on the effort required to make a simple web page that a) looks the same across different browsers and devices, b) is responsive, c) supports relatively basic concepts like dropdown menus, columnar layouts, etc...

It’s way too much effort for me to want to mess with, and then you have to repeat the same things for every site you make.

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