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This article is so naive. It completely negates all the benefits of the open web while presenting problems along with non-sensical "fixes"...

chime 9y ago
I apologize in advance for a political analogy but this sounds like "Obamacare is bad so we must repeal and replace it. I'll show you the replacement later." I've been a webdev for two decades now and while the author highlights the problems correctly, almost all of them have known fixes and there are 'best practices' to avoid them. Humans are not done with engineering and technology. We're still coming up with better ways to do things. Building for the browser is one of the best things we've done as a civilization. I can build something, send a link to my dad, and he can look it up on his phone with literally a single touch. How is that not amazing? It blows my mind every time I stop to think about it. It sounds ridiculous to say that since buildings fall every now and then, it's time to kill dwellings or since cars crash frequently, it's time to kill transportation. So without seeing the author's replacement, I am not yet ready to throw away the browser and JS-ecosystem just yet. It's terrible that Authy's 2-factor was bypassed with one simple trick but that doesn't mean HTML/CSS/JS need to die. You could have the same exact issues with mobile apps, installed software, or even hardware devices.
- goatlover 9y ago
  > It sounds ridiculous to say that since buildings fall every now and then, it's time to kill dwellings or since cars crash frequently, it's time to kill transportation. It's more like, since cars crash frequently, time to replace human drivers with machines. I take his argument as replacing the web as an application platform with something designed from the ground up for applications.
generalpf 9y ago
I mean, he worked at Google for 8 years, so he probably picked up some of their attitude. cough AMP cough
imtringued 9y ago
For me the open web died when EME won. Someone should build an application platform from scratch instead of wasting more time on this crappy document platform with application capabilities.
ksk 9y ago
I don't think the author should be forced to write about things that are off-topic.

chime 9y ago

I apologize in advance for a political analogy but this sounds like "Obamacare is bad so we must repeal and replace it. I'll show you the replacement later." I've been a webdev for two decades now and while the author highlights the problems correctly, almost all of them have known fixes and there are 'best practices' to avoid them. Humans are not done with engineering and technology. We're still coming up with better ways to do things. Building for the browser is one of the best things we've done as a civilization. I can build something, send a link to my dad, and he can look it up on his phone with literally a single touch. How is that not amazing? It blows my mind every time I stop to think about it. It sounds ridiculous to say that since buildings fall every now and then, it's time to kill dwellings or since cars crash frequently, it's time to kill transportation. So without seeing the author's replacement, I am not yet ready to throw away the browser and JS-ecosystem just yet. It's terrible that Authy's 2-factor was bypassed with one simple trick but that doesn't mean HTML/CSS/JS need to die. You could have the same exact issues with mobile apps, installed software, or even hardware devices.

goatlover 9y ago
> It sounds ridiculous to say that since buildings fall every now and then, it's time to kill dwellings or since cars crash frequently, it's time to kill transportation. It's more like, since cars crash frequently, time to replace human drivers with machines. I take his argument as replacing the web as an application platform with something designed from the ground up for applications.

generalpf 9y ago

I mean, he worked at Google for 8 years, so he probably picked up some of their attitude. cough AMP cough

imtringued 9y ago

For me the open web died when EME won. Someone should build an application platform from scratch instead of wasting more time on this crappy document platform with application capabilities.

ksk 9y ago

I don't think the author should be forced to write about things that are off-topic.