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What are some exceptions to the standards problem?
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Light bulb sockets are the same all over. RJ-45 Ethernet, USB-C, Bluetooth, WiFi, TCP, HTTP, HTML, CSS.
Include car cigarette lighter power ports
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Try using a USB-C data cable to charge a device. Now try figuring out which cable out of five is the charge cable.
Those aren't different standards, they're just different USB-C cables. It's like saying light bulb sockets aren't a unifying standard because there's different bulbs with different wattages. The fact that all those cables work over the same standard is an example of how ubiquitous the standard is. That said they should be labeled better, like how USB3 was color coded blue; each cable could have a color strip to distinguish it.
Shouldn't being able to identify which cable is used for which application be part of a standard?
You brought up light bulbs- imagine if they didn't tell you the wattage? But they do. They print it right on the bulb.
I agree with you, but I don't think that makes it a poor example; those different cables aren't competing standards, they're different types of USB-C cables. They should absolutely label the cables though, big oversight on the standard there.
It seems a lot of sites these days are actively hostile towards the HTML-CSS combo.
What do you mean? Do you have any examples?
Not really. I guess Google search requires JavaScript now.
While light bulb sockets don't change much from region to region, they definitely aren't all the same. For the bulbs (not the bars), there's two large categories: Edison screws and bi-pin. Edison screws also come in a lot of sizes. When compact fluorescents were rolling out, they got a new bi-pin connector from the USA: GU24. My whole home has GU24 fixtures (not by my own choice), but my lamps are Edison screws.
GU24 is wack, especially for home lighting. I think they aren't made much anymore.
HTML CSS and JavaScript each having different syntax is stupid and I will die on that hill.
Just use React or something, you can use a single syntax for all three. It makes total sense why the syntax is different if you think about when and why they were made. We had HTML for years before CSS, and it was longer still until we got JavaScript. Each language has a different purpose, so naturally a different syntax makes sense. Your hill is poorly defended.