A good case can be made for why boring is preferable to exciting in many aspects of our lives. Yet, we’re reluctant to apply this sentiment to the web. Rather, we’re in a relentless pursuit of the exciting in this increasingly JavaScript-centric world of web development. A pursuit that, despite our best efforts, litters the landscape of the web with excruciatingly slow and inaccessible pages. As division brews over the roles of HTML, CSS, and indeed JavaScript itself, we need to ask …