The article and every comment in this thread thereof is a thermonuclear illustration of (part of) why I hate web development. This is what so many of my peers told me was the way to develop applications. Nevermind that the desktop frameworks, quirky though they were at times, had none of these issues and didn’t force some absolutely wild hacks on their users.

I will never not be salty about the DOM, CSS, and all the wonky apis to control them. JavaScript in comparison was the least of the sins of web dev.