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I often find myself stumped with the “what do you do” question. I’m wondering if people imagine it as a groundbreaking, Matrix-like work. Changing the world, sending people to Mars.
Most of the time? A good few hours knee-deep in a UTC fight with a JS Date.
Just so I compare two of those. Or why an image is mysteriously shifted by a few stubborn pixels.
It’s always !important
But there’s a weird beauty in it. This chaos demands creativity - nothing’s ever as simple as it seems. It’s challenging, unpredictable, and oddly fun. I choose to cherrish it.
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Sounds fun, having a coding tantrum or you’re simply proud of that shaky workaround? Attaboy! Drop me a line.
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Not sure what quirks-mode
means? You lucky lad, I almost hate you!
Back in the days, HTML standards were more of a guidelines and each browser had its own interpretation on how the web worked. Chaos reigned. Developers cried.
Enter quirks-mode
! It’s like the web’s version of a secret handshake for outdated code.
It allowed browsers to render older pages with all their glorious, quirky inconsistencies from the pre-standards era,
making sure those sites didn’t crumble while the rest of the web moved on.
It’s like keeping a dusty old cassette player around to play those classic mixtapes. Sure, the sound quality isn’t great, but at least the tunes still play!