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Gotta disagree - Unix etc. are open, built by consensus, and have very good APIs. HTML / CSS for some reason is a clusterfuck.
by tejaswiy 11y ago
Gotta disagree - Unix etc. are open, built by consensus, and have very good APIs. HTML / CSS for some reason is a clusterfuck.
- toyg 11y agoUnix was also extremely inconsistent, before the Linux monoculture became dominant. It can still be painful to support BSDs, HPUX, Solaris etc.
- SixSigma 11y agoIt's almost like the competing browser vendors didn't want the spec to work !
- pcwalton 11y ago> Gotta disagree - Unix etc. are open, built by consensus, and have very good APIs. No, those APIs are not good (or, at least, not obviously better). The POSIX API has just as many ugly corners as the Web APIs do. Look at SysV shm, flock vs fcntl locking, ioctl, cmsg, etc. And that's not even getting into the horrors of Xlib…