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Here is Scott to Lensky and West boss

Welcome to syntax on this Monday. Hey, do you treat we're gonna be talking about hey?

Did you see that that the threads site and they had they had 10,000 divs on that side?

We're gonna be talking all about that. Why is Facebook's HTML and CSS such a mess is going on there

Do they need Marie condo to come in and spark some joy in here? What's going on there? My name is Scott to Lensky

I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is West boss. Hey, I am excited to talk about this

so when threads launched

I

Couldn't help myself but do a little inspect element and

They'll the landing page before it even launched had 13 divs just to do a full-screen canvas and I tweeted it out and

It got like half a million views which bumps me out because it's so easy to be snarky and get a ton of

Traction, whereas if you actually spend a long time on like a tip or something it will get

Not maybe 10% of that

You knew what you were doing when you were tweeting out that L.A. Facebook tweet you exactly

So I did that and then I and then like people go oh L.A.

Well like Facebook doesn't know what they're doing and the reality is this obviously Facebook

Obviously, there's a reason behind it. Obviously, there's very smart people that work there and maybe that's that's not so obvious

But I thought let's do a quick rundown. I've been curious about this forever as to like why when you view source on

Instagram Facebook or now threads

Why two things? Why is there so many divs? Why when they put like a title that says your name

If you inspect element on like a post that you made and you inspect your name, there's probably seven divs that wrap your name and

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