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Bullshit. The author is confusing web sites and web apps.

• jimktrains2 11y ago
  No, I think many people do. People are beginning to treat all websites as if they should be web apps. Look specifically at WIX sites, Google Groups, and Blogger these should not be web applications -- they are standard websites, repositories of information that need not live-update or run any javascript what-so-ever for the most basic of use-cases -- are entirely, 100% unusable without Javascript. Browse the web without javascript, you'll find that most things are broken, even static content just doesn't work. That's the problem. Web Apps are cool. Your blog _requiring_ or a news group _requiring_ javascript to read is not cool.
  • fixermark 11y ago
    Part of the problem is that the web content and security model requires one to consider a domain somewhat isomorphic to an app. It wouldn't be so bad if the technology existed to reliably say "foo.com is serving data that can be rendered via the some-standard-component presentation layer." Then, the browser itself would have the capacity to cache and optimize the rendering layer for common content schema. As it stands, your choices are to code to one schema (the HTML5 / CSS / no Javascript presentation standard, with all the restrictions that implies), to write a web app that will be a special little snowflake different from all the other special little snowflakes on the web, complete with its own chunk of memory and processing in your browser, or to throw up your hands and commit your content to one of the existing solutions that build the app for you (but then basically also control your data). We're missing a functional division between data and app that we have in the desktop model.