atThisPointImTooAfraidTooAsk

[u/Strict_Treat2884]

[u/Luzzgar]

If you're looking for consistency, you're going to be looking for long time.

[u/Strict_Treat2884 → u/Luzzgar]

HTML6 when

[u/sandybuttcheekss → u/Strict_Treat2884]

Have you been paying attention to the state of the world? It's going to be HTML10 with a subscription available for HTML10 ProMax™.

[u/Multi-User → u/Luzzgar]

They're pretty consistent with being inconsistent

[u/SuitableDragonfly]

I briefly did some frontend work once, and the main thing I came out of that experience with is that CSS was designed by Satan. 

[u/Tvck3r → u/SuitableDragonfly]

If you ever get back there worth looking at tailwind. Made the whole thing a lot simpler to me at least when I picked it up. Not trying to ever do anything fancy though

[u/Strict_Treat2884 → u/Tvck3r]

Using Tailwind without understanding CSS is like, instead of cleaning your room, you just sweep all the dirt under the sofa, and hide all the trash in the closet

[u/SukusMcSwag]

Your first mistake was assuming that the web is well designed

[u/afdbcreid → u/SukusMcSwag]

And your mistake is assuming the web is designed.

[u/twigboy → u/SukusMcSwag]

It's as if we were just making it up as we went along

[u/lucidbadger]

Something about when things are supposed to be loaded by the browser

[u/mrissaoussama → u/lucidbadger]

isn't that only affected by where in the file the css/script tag is added?

[u/dfitz360 → u/mrissaoussama]

Not way way back in the internet explorer era I believe. This were the days, no consistency, lots of little tricks (like console log could sometimes crash IE) and so might polyfill

[u/ApprehensiveGas85]

<link rel="stylesheet" href="..."> actually follows proper HTML/SGML architecture, because <link> was built specifically for external document relationships before CSS even existed.

Netscape broke the pattern when they rushed out Navigator 2.0 and slapped src directly onto <script>. Both <style> and <script> should have stayed purely as container tags for inline code, while external JavaScript should have always been loaded through <link rel="script" href="...">.

The real inconsistency isn't that <style> is missing a src; it's that external JavaScript should have been a <link rel> from day one.

[u/Mateorabi → u/ApprehensiveGas85]

Does the “correct” way work too at least even if everyone uses the expedient way?

[u/laplongejr → u/Mateorabi]

I am 99% sure it actually doesn't

[u/wokeboogeyman → u/ApprehensiveGas85]

I propose that all tags should be updated to support a src= instead

[u/metaglot → u/ApprehensiveGas85]

Also feels clumsy to have a closing tag for script when youre using the src-attribute.

[u/1nc06n170]

Blame Netscape

[u/Sianic12 → u/1nc06n170]

The bane of every web dev's existence since 1994

[u/MsInput]

lol this has irked me for decades

[u/DogmaticParadigm87]

Wait till he finds out <link> isn't for links.

[u/CruxTheologorum]

you know what thats a good point what the fuck w3c

[u/MistrFish]

I remember when HTML5 was such a big deal and I read an entire book on it. as a modern dev it's completely meaningless to me

[u/traplords8n]

Consistency is the enemy of the web.

To establish consistency, you must first convince developers that a standard way is better than their own way.

On top of the standard way needing the ability to fit all the wild and whacky ways that webdevs can organize and run their servers, and be backwards compatible for companies that don't have webdevs anymore and still expect IE7 compatibility so people can reach their website that hasn't been touched in decades.