alt Hacker NewsGo to Facebook.com and right click view source and tell me html is not being devalued. No person who wants to write aesthetic html would write that stuff.
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vsgherzi • yesterday at 9:50 PM
Do the same to Google.com
When it matters it matters. Even in facebooks case they made react fit for their use case. You think the react devs didn’t understand html? Do you think quality frontends can be written without any understanding of html?
Like the article says we’ve moved an abstraction up. That does not make the html knowledge useless
Tbh this is like looking at any binary's assembly code and complaining it's "unasthetic".
Whatever blob of HTML the browser is offered is just the end result of multiple "compilation" steps. Nobody has spent a single iota of time thinking about whether it's pretty.
Just like opening any binary produces inelegant assembler.