JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
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We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    485·
    5 months ago

    Oh yeah, it’s totally JavaScript that’s the reason that news and magazine websites suck. It’s totally not the financial incentives of advertising that cause them to only care about the user experience so far as they get clicks. This totally wouldn’t have been the exact same result if new media did everything on the backend and underfunded their backend dev teams. /S

    Jesus Christ, why do these inane articles keep coming up? The authors have the reasoning skills of “when I look into the sun my eyes hurt, therefor the sun is bad”.

  • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    5 months ago

    Hey, I’ve read exactly the same article 15 years ago, but back then it was Flash that “broke the web”.