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A highly compatible design with no ads, unnecessary images, videos, animations, scripts that goes straight to point delivering you exactly the information you need and nothing else? Something that's easily accessible even with old feature phones allowing older people to get information easily?
Simply something that loads instantly and just works?
Who would want that?
Found the backend dev. "CUT THIS AESTHETICS NONSENSE! GOMME THE VARIABLE CONTRNTS ALREADY!"
Frontend: "Come on, this needs at least some flair. This isn't the 90s."
Throws React at it
React ugh, everybody is using NextJs these da- ....oh, what's that? We've moved on already?
Good, that we have specialists for both and nobody is advocating that everyone should be doing full-stack work... oh wait.
Full-stack development and devops: When you need an entire IT department but only want to pay for one person.
As a full stack developer I can assure you I can easily produce the result displayed in both those panels in the image 😏
"Full-stack" is just a term invented by stingy employers who try to get 2 for the price of 1
The page at the top looks perfectly fine. It's useful, it gets the job done and it's lightweight.
almost as good as the motherfucking website. :D
I like the better motherfucking website
That person must have his monitor in vertical orientation
Shorter lines are easier to read because it's easier to find the beginning of the next one. Rule of thumb is indeed a maximum of about 80 characters, go take a random printed book and see how long the lines are they're like that for a reason. (Newspapers are shorter because smaller print, also, more opportunities for headlinest).
The contrast and line spacing stuff -- debatable. But adjusting line-width is pretty much a must. Not doing anything somewhat worked on 4:3 monitors but it's definitely awkward on 16:9 and on 21:9 your head is definitely on a swivel.
Oh and those large margins are very useful for things like footnotes, btw, or meta-information about the text (like those textbook "this is an exercise" stylings, just move the marking over to the margin). There's also plenty of place for a hierarchical list of contents, always on screen, and various other nav stuff. None of that will degrade loading or runtime performance to any noticable degree.
Also of course note that that's for text-heavy content, stuff you read as in reading an article or book, not stuff you look at in the sense of "reading" a poster. In this case you can e.g. turn those bullet-points into rectangular areas (also come up with a sixth one, then) and display them in a grid, each containing, well, what they contain now but also a link to further information. You see that pattern all over the place on the modern web and it's a good one. Would need quite a bit more content that is present on those websites, though, otherwise you have more navigation shenanigans than content. You don't need a fucking library index for a post-it note.
It's almost fine. It needs to include units for the measurements.
what is wrong with this frontend? not enough ads? loads too quickly?
I would hire you as my lawyer.
No cookie banner with the worst dark patterns of UX imaginable
As a backend developer who occasionally has to work on the frontend, that top image is pretty accurate although it requires bootstrap smeared all over to pretty things up a bit. After that it will have the "Good Enough" seal of approval.
God I wish weather pages were more like that first one.
I like to use this one: https://wttr.in/
You can get info for a specific city by appending it like this: https://wttr.in/newyork
in Paris
in Paris
in Paris
in Paris
What is this bloat? Trash site.
Honestly you don't even need to make the text field visible. If they can't touch-type that's on them.
I would prefer a dropdown list of all possible coordinate combinations.
Pfft just go there and feel the air yourself. Knowing the weather in advance is bloat anyway. If medieval sailors could launch ships without weather info and survive 30% of the time, you can too.
I can make HTML look alright if I have to and it's simple enough requirements.
The real hell is making it look good in an email. Oh, you used something from the last 20 years of HTML/CSS progress? Well fuck you.
After some time toying with CSS I have decided to fuck it and whenever I need to make a website I will just either:
No bloat, no Javashit, no problem
From my experience, devs be like:
Backend, yay! Frontend, nay! ... and I the end, not even the backend works properly.
So in the end, it doesn't even matter?
I TRIED. SO. HARD.
A proper backend developer would have the query be a URL using the GET method with a parameter that the user can fill-in directly in the address bar and the result be a text/plain page with just a bunch of numbers separated by pipe characters (or an application/json page with that info encoded as JSON if you wanna be fancy).
This has the added advantage of working both for humans and as an API for use in machine to machine communications via HTTP.