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Bear in mind that HTML wasn't intended to do any of this. You say it has a "long way to go", but the fact that you're even comparing web apps to desktop apps w

by GHFigs 17y ago

Bear in mind that HTML wasn't intended to do any of this. You say it has a "long way to go", but the fact that you're even comparing web apps to desktop apps without talking about ActiveX or Java applets (as we did 10-13 years ago) is a sign that open standard HTML/CSS/JS has come a very long way. Given the challenges of developing cross-platform standards compared to proprietary or platform-specific APIs, I'm personally amazed that any of this stuff works.

scott_s 17y ago
In support of your point, we should remember that HTML was originally envisioned as document markup. Now that the web is not really comprised of documents but applications, HTML is changing to represent this. Non-HTML solutions have to lead the standardization process so that the standards committee knows what to standardize. We didn't know ten years ago that it would even make sense to put some of this stuff into HTML.