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Exactly the same could have been said 15 years ago, and yet I'd argue it is the platform which has advanced the most in terms of both use and technology, and al
by placebo 11y ago
Exactly the same could have been said 15 years ago, and yet I'd argue it is the platform which has advanced the most in terms of both use and technology, and all this in spite of great standardization difficulties that other platforms didn't have to deal with.
I expect the same to happen in the future on both desktop and mobile platforms, despite the FUD.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoIt certainly has advanced the most, but that's a misleading presentation. It has advanced the most technologically only relative to its own starting position, i.e. it spent all this time catching up from blank state to where everyone else already was (and still is).
- bobajeff 11y agoThe web does things those other platforms don't. Like run unsigned applications from any server ephemerally on any machine or system. It's not playing catch up so much as adding powerful features without sacrificing it's core attributes.
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- TimJYoung 11y agoYes, and yes. The things it can't do are a pain, but the things that it can do are things that are very difficult to do in a standardized way with desktop/mobile. A cross-platform UI that simply works on just about any device was considered the holy grail of computing at one point. Everyone gave up on it after a while, and very quietly the web just "became" the platform that enabled such a UI, without limiting how such a UI can be created.