Unless it's really clever I'd prefer if they just let the browser do it's thing with an img tag, because that worked fine in the 56K times.

I completely agree. I think the problem is that bad designers are misusing a good tool. It's like salt: If I add a little to my meal, it makes it better. If I add a LOT of it to my meal, it doesn't keep getting better.

Unfortunately this causes a knee-jerk reaction to anything JS. Although I don't think JS is to blame, I think the hatred of JS comes from a good reason.

we decided static html webpages are sooo 1999. Yet it remains the most secure and user friendly medium to deliver value.

bring back the 1999 frame side bar. what was wrong with that?

That's funny. Back in the day, every Real web developer learned that frames are Evil and must be abolished, because they are breaking the back button and now the poor user can't provide a link to the view he sees, because the state of all the frames isn't encoded in the URL.

Then web2.0 happened and all the Cool web devs knew it's the time to start abusing ajax, use modal dialogs, break the back button, and turn simple websites serving text and images into complex stateful web apps and in doing so, ensure that people don't have nice URLs that encode the view they see, for linking.

Hello??

God I miss the late 90s and the internet. Even looking through neocities gives me a pang of nostalgia.

Now everything has to be "Material Design" or "Flat".

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Clearly not enough people, because it keeps happening. I think it would also help if people kept in mind that the internet is global, it isn't just for developed nations.

Much of the internet is a business, not a passion project. There are plenty of businesses that are completely OK with being inaccessible to users on 2g/3g in the developing world.

"Bill, phone calls are so 1992, they hired a web dev to create online polls"