The Daily WTF
I am old. I’m so old that, when I entered the industry, we didn’t have specializations like “frontend” and “backend” developers. You just had developers, and everybody just sort muddled about. As web browsers have migrated from “document display tool” to “enh, basically an operating system,” in terms of complexity, these two branches of development have gotten increasingly siloed.
Which creates problems, like the one Carlena found. You see, the front-end folks didn’t like the way things like quotes were displaying. A quote or a single quote should be represented as a character entity- ', for example.
Now, our frontend developers could have sanitized the strings for display on the client side, but making sure the frontend got good data was a backend problem, to their mind. But the backend developer was out of the office on vacation, so what were our struggling frontend folks to do?
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