High level question: Why do we need to
care about such things? Or, what's wrong
with just HTML and just some simple usage
of old CSS3 or whatever it was? That is,
why do Web pages need to be so complicated?
Since we have decades of word whacking software
without such features, why do we need such
features now?
My Web pages are all really simple: Each
is 800 pixels wide, with just a little use of
CSS and then nearly all just HTML, with the
layout using tables. I have yet to write
a single line of JavaScript although
Microsoft's ASP.NET writes a little for me.
To me, my Web pages look quite functional,
usable, easy to understand and use, etc.
For the need for a lot more, I don't
get it and worse: On the Internet
I see a lot of really
complicated Web pages that jump around
while loading and then again when I use my
mouse to put the page into the focus
and use the scroll wheel on the mouse
to scroll the page. I don't like the
jumping around.
Why go to the trouble to build
such complicated Web pages?
I'm not criticizing but trying to learn
and inviting answers.
Why bother? HTML was just another text
markup language, and nice, and CSS helped a little.
Isn't that enough?
I learned some HTML, and it was fine,
and now I want to
move on and just use it and not
stop here and make a career out of
adding unbounded complexity.
Shouldn't things be as simple as possible
but not simpler? Why be so complicated?
To me, the complicated Web pages I see
are a disaster, slow down my computer, etc.
-- I'd much rather have
just simple Web pages with old HTML,
only simple CSS, and little or no
JavaScript.
My Web pages are all really simple: Each is 800 pixels wide, with just a little use of CSS and then nearly all just HTML, with the layout using tables. I have yet to write a single line of JavaScript although Microsoft's ASP.NET writes a little for me.
To me, my Web pages look quite functional, usable, easy to understand and use, etc.
For the need for a lot more, I don't get it and worse: On the Internet I see a lot of really complicated Web pages that jump around while loading and then again when I use my mouse to put the page into the focus and use the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll the page. I don't like the jumping around.
Why go to the trouble to build such complicated Web pages?
I'm not criticizing but trying to learn and inviting answers.
Why bother? HTML was just another text markup language, and nice, and CSS helped a little. Isn't that enough?
I learned some HTML, and it was fine, and now I want to move on and just use it and not stop here and make a career out of adding unbounded complexity.
Shouldn't things be as simple as possible but not simpler? Why be so complicated? To me, the complicated Web pages I see are a disaster, slow down my computer, etc. -- I'd much rather have just simple Web pages with old HTML, only simple CSS, and little or no JavaScript.