Re:Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
by quakenul on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:59AM
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It is as simple as it ever was to do what could be done 15 years ago with a simple text editor and access to the internet. Any adjoining aspect has gotten easier and cheaper by a magnitude.
It's just that what people want has gotten a lot harder to build.
Re:Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
by laumars on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:36AM
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The removal of the <center> tag in place of CSS black magic is definitely not "easier" than it was 15 years ago. However I suspect this is going to be one of those debates that we have to agree to disagree on.
I should add that I don't disagree with the deprecation of <center> from a language purists perspective. However it was still a step backwards in terms of ease of development when centring stuff in CSS is so clunky in comparison.
Talking personally, I published my first website in 1994 when there wasn't different layout modes. Now it is suggested that I read a multi-chapter book just to learn what's changed in CSS so I can publish the same content I had before but in a "web 3.0" (for want a better description) format.
I appreciate my comments are very ranty / preachy and do value your comment as I hadn't seen that link before; so my comments are not directed at you in any negative way at all! What I'm essentially just trying to say is web development has become very frustrating for anyone outside of the webdev community. Heck, I find it frustrating and I used to specialise in hardening web servers so have worked quite close to that community.