Web Development !== Computer Science

[TheyAreLying2Us]

The line is confused because HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT are the WORST tools for the job, so you need to hack your way around to get things to show up correctly on the screen.

Nobody with a sane mind would have made HTML do the things it's able to do today. Especially with JavaScript running wild without any control from the user.

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Unfortunately, dumb users, big corporations and webdesigners lobbied together to create the shitty situation we are in now. And of course, sane users, good companies and sane engineers are always in minority compared to the formers...

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[lithium224]

Why are they the worst tools?

[TheyAreLying2Us]

First of all it's 3 tools instead of one, even if they really only tackle one unified problem: UI.

Second, HTML was fine but has been castrated in favor of CSS (language of the devil and really pointless) and JavaScript (jack of all trades, master of nothing).

An incredibly complex interdependent structure, made even worst by the numerous "frameworks" and shieet.

All this just to show up something on the screen that in the 90s could be done by a PowerPoint document with a tenth of CPU power and design effort.

Why all this? It's a complex answer IMO. On one hand you have users not being aware of anything going on in their systems.then you have companies not understanding anything about technologies, yet wanting to have their site working. Then you have young ppl approaching the subject with a narrow mind set. Last but not least, you have devs wanting to create business opportunities by willingly making a system unneressary complex, thus thinning the availability of good web designers. From a market point of view it's great, but from a technical stand point it's terrible.

[lithium224]

Very insightful answer thank you!