My favorite thing about web apps built using an approach that emphasizes web fundamentals, accessibility, semantic HTML, progressive enhancement, mobile first, and limited use of fancy new JS techniques, is that they create extra value for their users almost by accident
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Examples of such benefits: They’ll load faster, fail less often (and not as badly if they do fail), provide targets people can link to, work in line with user expectations …

Jul 9, 2019 · 3:48 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
In my experience it's something one needs to actually see implemented to value it. Especially in terms of maintainability, reusability and general short and long term benefits. Too many discussions about (spa) frameworks of the day for certain aspects lead me to believing this.
Replying to @stilkov
I wish mobile Safari engineers share these values with you. No scroll-jumps, predictable height of the viewport, pixel-perfect SVGs. Before that, hacks, WebGL with a custom font renderer, and a hidden HTML tree for screen readers. Oh, and OOP in React sucks because of HTML :-)