Prove me wrong: there are too many programming languages.
<a href="https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-many-coding-languages-are-there/" rel="nofollow">https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-many-coding-languages-are-t...</a>)<p>Resumes are built on knowing “the next great programming language.”<p>Too much productive time is wasted at work and at home chasing and developing new languages.<p>How’s that for a controversial issue?
Whether or not to obey web standards.<p>I'm building a new project that permits building web pages in SVG instead of HTML (example at <a href="https://svija.love" rel="nofollow">https://svija.love</a>).<p>The initial offering works well but does not obey web standards in several respects.<p>* The pages do not reflow when the browser window resizes
* The text of the page can be out of order in the source, causing accessibility issues
* Information about the structure of the text is missing (all text is equal — there are no ‹p› or ‹h1› tags)<p>The benefits are that you can design a web page in a few minutes in Adobe Illustrator that requires no conversion and that displays exactly the same on every platform.<p>When we have showed our project to web developers the reaction has been incredibly negative:<p>"[it] is very difficult to read on a mobile device, and is completely inaccessible to assistive technologies, which interpret the page as one unlabeled image. Sites should not be built like this."<p>However, when we've showed the product to designers, they've been very enthusiastic:<p>"Wow, I'm blown away by your product. It is seriously incredible, I've been showing all my designer friends and they can't believe it."<p>For me, it's a transition, like from black-and-white to color television. There are obvious shortcomings, but we'll address them as we go forward.<p>· · ·<p>To come back to web standards: people have made a lot of noise about how they're important (and given us a lot of grief), but the big companies just do what they want, especially Google.<p>AMP pages have turned out to be just a way to keep visitors from leaving Google properties, for example.<p>And most of the standards-related criticism we've receive has come down to advice that would mostly benefit Google rather than our visitors (structured text).<p>Web standards are holding back the Internet and catering to Google.<p>We've been given an incredible opportunity to broadcast content everywhere in the world and all that's permitted is making glorified books?