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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with

(lyra.horse)
451 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 28 Aug 25 20:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. throwaway81523 ◴[29 Aug 25 00:34 UTC] No.45058628[source]▶
The great wheel of karma. All the stuff that made javascript despicable now makes css despicable as well.
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2. ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 ◴[29 Aug 25 00:52 UTC] No.45058745[source]▶
Can you elaborate on what all that stuff is?
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3. SoftTalker ◴[29 Aug 25 02:27 UTC] No.45059392[source]▶
My interpretation is that although making your site a unique snowflake is fun, it's ultimately a burden on the users.

GUIs are successful when they follow visual and behaviorial standards. With everything that CSS and JS can do, every website becomes an exercise in discovery just to be able to use it for its intended purpose.

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4. ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 ◴[29 Aug 25 02:45 UTC] No.45059532{3}[source]▶
> GUIs are successful when they follow visual and behaviorial standards.

Wouldn't that be a design or HCI issue, not something innate to a language? What is a behavioral standard?

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5. SoftTalker ◴[29 Aug 25 03:08 UTC] No.45059690{4}[source]▶
Yes technically but the language enables it.

A behavioral standard would be that scrolling always works by sliding the scroll bar or using the arrow or page-down keys.

Or that the back button takes you to the previous page.

Just two examples.

Many sites break these and you have to discover what they replaced them with.