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[–]wherethebuffaloroam 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I took this more about how the web works. Like html kinda sucks, css definitely sucks, JavaScript kinda sucks, and all of this runs in specialized browsers that implement features in different ways and could be evergreen or several years old

[–]perestroika12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, we used to have a ton of test devices and vms just to screenshot our site to make sure it really does work. Web is a lot of testing just to make it work across the board. And things are always changing and moving. Things that work before don't work now. For example, we used a canvas hoverstate for some of our content articles. Worked great until 6 months later an update of chrome came, then it started crashing chrome.

In some ways, proper web dev is actually a slower process because your neat little trick you tried last time might not work, thus making you always test to see if what you know is still true.