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Comment by felixgallo | Hacker News Reader

I think you overestimate the amount of considered, thoughtful reflection that went into creating HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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And yet they have become useful far beyond their original intended design.

No. They have prevented aeons of progress. They are an unmitigated computing tire fire that future generations are going to curse us for.

Future generations? Current generations curse them right now :-).

Your hyperbole is truly as excellent as your dangling prepositions. I do so love the smartness with which you declare the end of society.

Yeah, if just full-screen Java Applets had prevailed instead of web pages we would be much better off! Seriously, the html/css/js stack has its share of haphazard design, but it has shown to be much more robust and adaptable than any of the proposed "better-designed" alternatives.

Yeah I do wish I could see a bunch of unstyled, barely functional UX "designed" by engineers who have no understanding of interfaces or design.

I and many other have careers because of them.

If it is such a problem for you, I would suggest coming up with actual solutions instead of the Grandpa Doom visionary "prediction" you've offered which is of no value.

Well, they've been used far beyond their original intended design, at least.

What exactly is not useful about using HTML and CSS to create web pages? The entire medium of the web to create applications is already far beyond the original intended design of the browser, etc. So what makes it so bad besides that some people, who seem to think they're pretty smart, have a lot of difficulty with it?

All of it? :)

It's neither a good rendering medium, nor a good language to describe the structure of the data.

Surely you must be joking about JS at least. The language was created in 10 days.

He writes "overestimate," not "underestimate" :)

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