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I have seen so many of these "you shouldn't do this completely normal, accepted and usual thing in $current_year because of corner case XYZ", but who is the tar
by 63stack 2y ago
I have seen so many of these "you shouldn't do this completely normal, accepted and usual thing in $current_year because of corner case XYZ", but who is the target audience?
As a developer, I don't have the authority to decide I'm going to spend resources on making the site work without javascript. I can sneak in some extra hours, but continuously testing if the site works without it, and getting other developers to do the same is not a small task.
Managers? They are not going to read this.
- andrewstuart 2y agoThere are lots of people in the world and some of them have unusual perspectives on how the world should work.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoI did a double-take because there's two ways to read that. We have an unusual, thin slice of humanity here on HN, a minority with disproportionate power to impose its will upon billions while calling others with different lifestyles "marginal", "edge cases", and so on.