Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next?
So his central thesis is that JS has been getting all of the love while HTML and CSS have been marginalized. I want to empathize with him because he&#x27;s a seasoned vet in programming and has been at it longer than I have. But, I&#x27;ve been doing web development since i was 12 on pet projects, and we totally have been making great strides in web UI.<p>If you made a website in the 90s or early noughts, everything was tables. Do you remember how to make a button with a bevel in 2005? You made a 3x3 table, and had to splice an image into <i>9</i> different sub images, and then stitch them all together. Now you have background:linear-gradient and border-radius. I mean, maybe you take this for granted now, but seriously, that was <i>game changing</i> for me when those things came out.<p>Now add on UI frameworks like Bootstrap and Zurb. Before everything was a JPG photoshop mockup. Every design was treated in isolation. There were entire <i>businesses</i> revolved around taking a PSD and turning it into HTML&#x2F;CSS. Now everything is a component. It&#x27;s reusable...<i>and useable</i>. Sure, we may have watered down design to the point where largely every SaaS landing page is the same, but the speed with which we can get developers to convey trust via design is vastly improved over the old days.<p>Sure, JS frameworks are all the rage right now. But we have made <i>serious</i> strides in web UIs as well.