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I'm glad to read somebody else who also shares my view on that. HTML has been great to make the web great without microsoft attempt to monopolize it, but marku
by jokoon 11y ago
I'm glad to read somebody else who also shares my view on that.
HTML has been great to make the web great without microsoft attempt to monopolize it, but markup languages are useless as a file format you send across the internet.
Why? Because parsing text is, and will ALWAYS be slow. So either pre-parse html and put this in an OPEN binary file format, or burn it with fire.
Why can't investors and other developer take a damn hint that there is a reason smartphones use applications instead of web apps: html, dom, js, css all those things are slow and totally not well designed ! If you want to know more, start with that video that talks about the messy process that was HTML standardization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0o-QjnwDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0o-QjnwDg
HTML is not a strict language, meaning it's EVEN SLOWER to parse.
Wake up sheeple (sorry that was unnecessary)
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- nilliams 11y agoSorry, this is just wrong. The time to parse CSS + HTML is negligible and isn't a reason native is better. Native apps have a better foothold currently because mobile platforms had better support for their own native languages, than for sophisticated web runtimes like V8 at release.
- millstone 11y agoThe runtime isn't what matters, the touch-first UI toolkit and OS integration story is. The web came to mobile with lots of desktop baggage: scrolling, hover, "px", CPU-driven animations, etc. That's what makes it awkward on mobile.
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- jokoon 11y agoThe problem is "sophisticated". You can't have speed with "sophisticated" if that platform you are releasing software on is "sophisticated". At its base, the system must be simple enough. If AT LEAST html would be a strict language like xml is, maybe that'd be better. But XML is not even human readable. YAML is.