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		giancarlostoro on April 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a front end with no JavaScript I've done / seen so many hacky things in web dev I would be surprised how many websites even work properly with screen readers.

Tade0 on April 11, 2019 [–]

Such is the sad state of web development.

giancarlostoro on April 11, 2019 | [–]

As I do hacky work on the web I sometimes wonder why specific UI elements don't exist yet instead of people being forced to hack other elements to do things the web doesn't support. I can't remember a good example off the top of my head currently sadly.

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