Adam Wathan (Part 2): The Ignorance On Full Display
In part 1 I discussed how I find Adam Wathan and those like him to be frauds. Phoneis. Pretenders. They dance the edge of being predators, but until there’s genuine malice, their deception feels more like a reek of ignorance of the most basic reasons HTML is separate from CSS.
Instead of investigating why “separation of concerns” is important; instead of embracing all the advantages they give us; they just scream “Wah wah, eye dunz wunna dew muh job” like a petulant child. Running off to make their own systems that drag web development back to the worst and ugliest of the mid ‘90’s browser wars. Accessibility, efficiency, speed, caching, these all mean nothing to them. Even as they proclaim to the heavens all sorts of outright lies like how their way is somehow magically “easier” or “better” when they are demonstrably nothing of the sort.
This time around I want to look at something simple he’s done — his own little website — because if you can’t do something simple properly, how are we supposed to trust you when things get bigger? This is where so many of your defenders will say things like “but when things scale” as if all these mistakes can be swept under the rug, instead of how they climb exponentially only further soiling the pot.
