Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Your website does not need JavaScript - Amy Kapernick - Copenhagen DevFest 2023" video.

  1. all these new HTML CSS new options feel like hacks despite them being standard. i think there is a much more interesting conversation to be had about why people choose JavaScript. although this talk and the talk i have in mind will get us very far, because we are basically stuck with old bad decisions
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  2. ​ @dripcaraybbx  perhaps. i feel a bit for both. JavaScript can present a more generic interface. typically the JavaScript specifications don't have to do something close enough to new CSS specifications. for designers and programmers it's nice that HTML/CSS is declarative but you typically can't reuse your definitions or use them to build bigger ones (which almost sounds imperative). my gut feeling is that we are probably missing a good declarative domain specific language like how we have SQL for databases (which also has a few problems, but nothing like HTML/CSS)
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