I have just started doing web programming in the last month after several years of applications programming.
It feels like to me, and someone please tell me why I'm wrong, that the amount of hackery that goes into making webpages look the way web designers want them to is astounding. I google for solutions to various problems and the top rated comment on StackOverflow says "...there isn't a good way to do this in CSS, but here is this hack...".
I feel like somewhere in the universal programming ether there exists a beautiful unification of HTML, CSS, and JS that doesn't rely on any ugly hackery, and it's just waiting to be found and start a brave new world of web programming...
It feels like to me, and someone please tell me why I'm wrong, that the amount of hackery that goes into making webpages look the way web designers want them to is astounding. I google for solutions to various problems and the top rated comment on StackOverflow says "...there isn't a good way to do this in CSS, but here is this hack...".
I feel like somewhere in the universal programming ether there exists a beautiful unification of HTML, CSS, and JS that doesn't rely on any ugly hackery, and it's just waiting to be found and start a brave new world of web programming...