r/technology • u/Choobeen • 9h ago

Software Trump appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public (government) websites

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-appoints-airbnb-co-founder-to-revamp-public-websites-after-musk-doge-exit/a-73744139
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u/Encomiast 9h ago edited 9h ago

The HTML of https://americabydesign.gov does not exactly inspire confidence that anyone over there actually knows what they are doing:

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    What's
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    the
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    biggest
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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 4h ago

This is a hacky, probably AI generated way to get the text to highlight on scroll. This is something that GSAP is used for but here they just cobbled it together themselves. This would have never been accepted by the US Digital Service.