Web dev could be done by a trained monkey.

Fight me bro.

Related: I currently feel like a trained monkey.

Given enough time an untrained monkey could do it too.

Well one time I was attending conference about machine learning and guy said that trained pigeons detected anomalies in medical images better then any known human expert or machine learning algorithm so there is high chance some animal can do web dev better then us.

Animals are so underrated due to industrial revolution.

@atheist Amazing, you can speak too! Respect to your monkey trainer.

Humanity is overrated.

And yes, puking out html gibberish can be done by anyone.

Sometimes it is

@IntrusionCM except cors
That apparently is for specialists since docs on it were nil back in the day except in the http spec itself

When you need someone to get the job, yes, totally agree.

When you need someone who does the job well? Hell no.

No, I can't do web dev.

While web dev definitely _should_ be that easy, styling form fields, buttons and regular links to have exact same proportions and align themselves and their text content on shared baselines is unbelievably hard to actually get working right on different browsers and device scales / zoom levels...

I totally get why some are using JavaScript to emulate form fields (it still is wrong though).
But yes, web dev should actually be doable by trained monkeys. There is no fucking excuse for the remaining pitfalls to still exist...

So you are wrong, but i wished you where right.

Maybe two monkeys , just so they can pass peer review

@killames
Chances are, you don't need to mess with CORS.

But if you think, you do, there is human readable documentation about it now:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US...

Given the sad technical state of the average website, I conclude that the average web dev IS actually a trained monkey. A badly trained one.

@Demolishun *type

@Benutzername something about Shakespeare here

@killames What do you mean? The http spec was great!

@mrgemeco locating relevant information when you’re not already familiar is sometimes difficult
And it is of course extremely dry reading even by a developers standards
Like i once wrote an irc bot from the Rfc as a personal project
The only reason I had to read that was to mindlessly implement it
Http has a lot of crap relevant to an implementer of Libs not just the raw protocol and there is a fuck ton of info I found a bit overwhelming

A hipo could do it too. Oh, an octopus could do it faster than any human.

I for one as a human fail miserably

@Tonnoman My current notifications. I think you deserve a ++

@atheist lulz, I see you returned the favour. I have been reading a lot of posts recently including yours, so I guess that's the reason :P