I hate

I often, almost weekly, think about coming here to just write “websites”. I hate them. I am never ever on a fast computer, and anything less is just not equipped to make them usable. I hate the cookies bullshit, even more so when it slowly animates before I can click it. I hate when Barclays doesn’t put the fucking code boxes where I can click on them and I have to repeatedly scroll down to find them. I hate when I click on a shopping item, press back, and it takes me back to the top. I hate mailto links because I also hate the mail app. I hate having to turn screen lock off on my phone so I can turn my phone landscape to use your stupid website. I hate trying to read your white-on-black text. I hate opening a thread and watching the whole thing disappear under a sea of slowly-loading images. I hate going to click a link only for it to shift down making me click the wrong thing. I hate that this is all so shit in 2023 with how much I pay for everything.

All of this. We went through a period of time when websites stopped looking like they did on Windows 95 and everything became nicely aligned with images that loaded quickly and in place. We seem to have done a complete u-turn in the last few years and the majority of websites are a bag of misaligned shit, with nothing lining up and looking like it's just been plonked randomly somewhere on the page, text loading in one font and then changing at the last minute, doesn't quite fit on one page etc etc. The oldest, nerdiest, hand-coded HTML sites load absolutely perfectly, and instantly, on any device. Why the fuck does a basic, modern site showing me nothing more than text and a couple of images take so fucking long to load on a modern 56 jiggabit fibre connection and then look such a mess?

Bring back tables and frames. Damn.