Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“Responsive design is bad for performance.”
“User agent detection is bad. Don’t segment the web.”
“Hybrid apps don’t work as well as native apps.”
“CSS preprocessors shouldn’t be used because they create bloated CSS.”
If you create for the web you’ve no doubt heard at least a couple of these statements. They’re flung around with alarming frequency.
There is a fundamental problem with this line of thinking: it places the blame on the technique instead of the way the technique was implemented. Generalizing in this way discredits the validity of an approach based on poor execution, and that’s a very harmful way of thinking.
(Source: twitter.com)
