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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in why do people use so much javascript and <div> by twovests

i mean, i can understand html/css frameworks

if i ever make a site, i'm probably gonna slap on one of those cool styles with nice buttons and responsive designs

but i'll still need to fill in where buttons go... and i understand people are somehow using javascript for this? my understanding it was like <button id="cool_logout_button"> and then you hook that up with some Spicy Javascript later down the line?

do you know where the many <div> come from? do they serve a purpose, or are they just extra cruft from the layers of abstraction?

view-source is once again a fresh mystery

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devtesla wrote (edited )

Using a web app framework to build a website means yea, you can use JavaScript to set where buttons are. I do believe it's mostly for like, calling a server to decide what text to out where

The div stuff is probably cruft, the sort of thing that could be removed but people don't because it might cause an issue that they wouldn't be able to catch because of all the different places html has to render

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twovests OP wrote

ah that makes sense

it feels cursed to say, but i guess html and css are to modern webdevs as bytecode are to other devs? i assume the compiler or JIT magic is trying to cut as much fat as possible, but i've rarely ever touched a compiled output

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