New DConf Blog Post

[wjoe]

On Thursday, 11 April 2019 at 16:56:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 4/11/19 10:11 AM, wjoe wrote:
>> 
>> No offense, but http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
>> 
>
> That is the best website EVER. Times a billion. Says exactly 
> the things I've been wanting to scream at jet-engine volume 
> straight into the faces of every web designer and full-stacker 
> in the world.
>
> "Responsive web" always made me cringe. 
> HTML-freaking-version-ONE was responsive. And semantic. It was 
> specifically *designed* to be. But then the designers and the 
> know-nothing software managers came, hated that stuff, and 
> killed it all with fire. Then when the sausage-finger small 
> screens came (not to mention browser diversity and "emerging 
> markets"), they shit a brick and started over-re-engineering 
> everything that was already there all along (plus some extra 
> garbage nobody needs). Idiots.

Yeah, that, and it respects a browser's font and size 
configuration :)
Visiting a web-site I often think to myself: Fail! You can still 
manage to read that 7pt font by attaching your eyeballs to the 
screen! If you don't want people to be able to read it, you 
should remove that text altogether! Saves you all the effort, too.

These so called web designers who work soooo hard to find all 
possible ways to stop you from comfortably reading the thing with 
tons of useless java script "coolness" and distracting banners 
and drop downs and otherwise hidden information you need to find 
the spot to tickle to make it appear (is that a secret cry for 
help?) and pictures that stalk you but can't make text flow 
around a picture without using DIV - and then need to nail 
everything else in place with more DIVs. Amusing :)

They can't even make normal hyperlinks work and spend tons of 
effort trying to imitate it with java script. Delicious :)

And their white on black design which makes you see nothing but 
zebras for the rest of the day or so after spending 2 minutes on 
it...love it! :)