Having also been in this industry for two decades, you haven’t noticed the amount of wrongheaded groupthink that leads the entire industry astray with flashy marketing for the latest ill-conceived toy for both management and engineers alike?
Yeah, this industry seems particularly prone to it. Do you not remember the 90s and early 00s, where most of the industry was utterly convinced you needed unreadably small body copy and splash pages? Or how about CSS in general? I must have heard “you can only use CSS for boxy designs” a thousand times before Dave Shea got fed up and created CSS Zen Garden to conclusively prove them wrong. The number of times I’ve seen the majority of the industry believe something completely dumb and then figure it out 5–10 years later is insane.
I have, but in this case it was truly necessary to do all the disgusting stuff like using Javascript to center stuff, because the content width had to be determined in hindsight. All suggestions in the article use features that came out in the late 2010s that solved this.
