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This is a great idea. If people can pass Excel spreadsheets and Word documents back and forth through email, why can't they pass custom form apps made of pure H
by fiatjaf 10y ago
This is a great idea. If people can pass Excel spreadsheets and Word documents back and forth through email, why can't they pass custom form apps made of pure HTML and JS?
With this document format we're almost leaving the 90's and entering the 00's.
Now go get your friends and family to install the viewer.
- iffycan 10y agoThanks, I had the same thoughts, though I chuckled when I read: > we're almost leaving the 90's and entering the 00's. Because I feel the opposite: computers were first terminals attached to mainframes, then in the 90s the pendulum swung to personal computers free from the mainframe. In the 00s we swung back to the "cloud" (terminals dependent on the central computer) and LHTML feels like the pendulum swinging back to computers being able to run without the mainframe/cloud.
- fiatjaf 10y agoYes, you are right, but I didn't thought in these terms. I was thinking that while web technology evolved so much in the last years, people would still pass around documents based on formats from the 90's (Word and Excel). I've just written "web technology" up there, but that is wrong, and I think LHTML shouldn't use the word "web" in its copy. What we have is "browser technology", "html+javascript renderers", anything like that. That is the technology that evolved. "Web" is a word that designates different things.