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> The problem with the web platform is that it's such a bizarre mishmash of things, often designed in isolation without any specific app driving the platform fo
by kowdermeister 9y ago
> The problem with the web platform is that it's such a bizarre mishmash of things, often designed in isolation without any specific app driving the platform forward. So you get design-by-committee standards that may or may not be implemented on any given browser.
That called organic growth and evolution with natural selection. I find it a much better way than a group of coders sit down in their ivory tower and lay down the "proper" way how I should do things because they know better than me. Good luck with that.
- mike_hearn 9y agoWhat lives or dies isn't actually chosen by natural selection. It's chosen by a variety of arcane closed-door meetings between the major browser vendors where they agree or disagree to implement each others specs.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThat's still natural selection, with browser vendors executing the selection part. The problem with the web is ultimately the same as with everything else in this industry - it's that the fitness function sucks. And that, unfortunately, is caused by economic incentives being broken, which is not a trivially fixable problem.