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The web we broke. — ethanmarcotte.com

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I read something depressing last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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## Books Good month for books! Setting hard limits on social media time really works

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We are actively destroying the web

One of the central themes of my talk on The Lean Web is that we as developers repeatedly take all of the great things the web and browsers give us out-of-the-box, break them, and then re-implement them poorly with JavaScript. This point smacked me in the face hard a few weeks ago after WebAIM released their survey of the top million websites. As Ethan Marcotte noted in his article on the survey:

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Web A JavaScript-Free Frontend This has some neat tricks that I hadn’t thought of for doing “live” front-end without JavaScript. The checkbox/label trick is really cool, though it’s a little over-complicated for my taste, and besides, doesn’t degrade well in browsers that don’t support CSS. The fact that you can use it to build a modal dialog is crash, though. I’m using details/summary for subject/Content Warning in brutaldon. It degrades okay.

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