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Even with elaborate CSS in play, I think the web has deep characteristics that you can either lean into or struggle against. For example, there's the simple fac
by robinsloan 8y ago
Even with elaborate CSS in play, I think the web has deep characteristics that you can either lean into or struggle against. For example, there's the simple fact of scrolling; does your web page embrace that default behavior, or override it with fancy scroll effects, or replace it entirely with, say, some kind of horizontal page-flipping simulation?
I think often of Frank Chimero's visual essay about this, titled "The Web's Grain": https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/ https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
- antonvs 8y ago> I think the web has deep characteristics that you can either lean into or struggle against. I completely agree with that, but I don't get the impression that this is what most brutalist web approaches are really going for. Besides, I've followed a version of the leaning into principle for all my technology work for many years, because I'm "lazy" in the programmer sense and impatient - struggling to achieve some specific vision of a solution when I can achieve the same end goal more pragmatically and much more quickly is a no-brainer choice for me. I've often successfully convinced clients of this, too. I don't plan to start calling this brutalism :)