[–] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

software engineers met the table¹ in web design and never looked back. does a table "mean" tfoot and all (arranged at top)? thead, that sorts(, by server link without javascript)? a "table" in the web means all sorts of sorty things (i mean even "drag and drop" first should meet with server links that move a row up and down — maybe reveal the "buttons" through tap+hold on the row in CSS, and so on) and offset things, and paginated things, by navigable server links, even hide and filter fields by URI! and the two tables nested for layout, oy vey! so many ways with all that engineering the web fell to the broken manual✨️🤷🏾‍♂️✨️

¹ (for layout) https://www.w3.org/TR/web-sustainability-guidelines/#progressive-enhancement

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    it's tyranny when your schema.org/WebSite doesn't declare itself a schema.org/WebSite (nor any of the other semantic web stuff we were promised) and it doesn't work without javascript. "a.i." has become a distraction generator from the death by a thousand cuts that started with jeff bezos' API Mandate.

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    how could daughters look their engineer-dads in the eyes, no matter the country they're in, the same before? this was our BeforeTimes (ignoring Bill Gates' antitrust). everyone knows this was a chokehold, and you did not all celebrate the "or you're fired" bit, nor did you only see it as "mere play". "americans" are not the only ones to blame. the paternalism ain't paternalizing. discuss.

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