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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by GrinningFool on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:55AM (#12479668)
The thing that makes me dubious of this claim is the number of years for which we've been reading variants of, "the upcoming (grid/flex/canvas/css3/html5/ecma spec/etc) will make things much better".
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by tengbretson on Monday September 12, 2016 @12:02PM (#12480830)
Literally all of the things you listed have made web programming much better.
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by jordanlev on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:30AM (#12479945)
I was talking specifically about layout (because the comment I was replying to mentioned layout specifically). I don't think any of the things you listed promised to improve layout, except flexbox and grid. And flexbox does improve one-dimensional layouts -- vastly so. I suppose the jury is still out on the grid spec, but it is in the process of being implemented by all the browsers and you can actually play around with it (behind feature flags).
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