Joe wrote: > So many pages now have little or no functionality unless you permit half > a dozen scripts to run, many of them written by idiots who can just > barely drive a web authoring package. Look at the page source: 90% of > it is font commands, workarounds for many different rendering engines > and screen sizes, and other housekeeping stuff, and half the rest is JS > calls. I write the odd web application for my own use, and I do it > (usually) in php with embedded HTML. No web designer would ever > consider doing that, he wants to dash off rubbish in the shortest time > possible, and he assumes everyone is using the same browser, on a > high-powered workstation, that he uses for testing.
Many of them even do not know what is the source they produce. Don't blame them - they use kind of tools that generate the code. All is getting automated and at the cost of data transfer and processing. As of PHP ... I found symfony framework, spent some time to learn it and ... much better now. regards