Resumes are built on knowing “the next great programming language.”

Too much productive time is wasted at work and at home chasing and developing new languages.

How’s that for a controversial issue?

I'm building a new project that permits building web pages in SVG instead of HTML (example at https://svija.love).

The initial offering works well but does not obey web standards in several respects.

* The pages do not reflow when the browser window resizes * The text of the page can be out of order in the source, causing accessibility issues * Information about the structure of the text is missing (all text is equal — there are no ‹p› or ‹h1› tags)

The benefits are that you can design a web page in a few minutes in Adobe Illustrator that requires no conversion and that displays exactly the same on every platform.

When we have showed our project to web developers the reaction has been incredibly negative:

"[it] is very difficult to read on a mobile device, and is completely inaccessible to assistive technologies, which interpret the page as one unlabeled image. Sites should not be built like this."

However, when we've showed the product to designers, they've been very enthusiastic:

"Wow, I'm blown away by your product. It is seriously incredible, I've been showing all my designer friends and they can't believe it."

For me, it's a transition, like from black-and-white to color television. There are obvious shortcomings, but we'll address them as we go forward.

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To come back to web standards: people have made a lot of noise about how they're important (and given us a lot of grief), but the big companies just do what they want, especially Google.

AMP pages have turned out to be just a way to keep visitors from leaving Google properties, for example.

And most of the standards-related criticism we've receive has come down to advice that would mostly benefit Google rather than our visitors (structured text).

Web standards are holding back the Internet and catering to Google.

We've been given an incredible opportunity to broadcast content everywhere in the world and all that's permitted is making glorified books?