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Most of the modern Web is unusable without a highly optimized JIT-compiling JS interpreter. Are you sure about the importance of interoperability & compatibilit
by tzahola 9y ago
Most of the modern Web is unusable without a highly optimized JIT-compiling JS interpreter. Are you sure about the importance of interoperability & compatibility?
- _wmd 9y agoI'm not sure why you believe that is a counterexample - it is anything but. That interpreter can still run code written against the original DOM APIs in the original syntax, as defined 22 years ago - around time the <noscript> tag appeared in HTML! Of course if mom and pop were using UUCP and an ADM-3A to fetch their mail, they couldn't view the images -- but all the infrastructure that allowed them to read mail at all could be repurposed without change, possibly including their modem (thanks, RS-232, introduced 1960), if they bought a 80386 desktop with a VGA card These are all interoperability success stories! Meanwhile, I need 19 different IM apps on my phone to talk to 19 different people. That's what happens when you ignore interoperability
- mschuster91 9y ago> Meanwhile, I need 19 different IM apps on my phone to talk to 19 different people. That's what happens when you ignore interoperability IO was not ignored, it was willfully cast aside. That's the world of walled gardens we live in today... federation makes it possible for users to switch outside your walled garden.
- ycombobreaker 9y agoYes, HTTP and all of the layers below are quite fundamental to the success of the WWW. Interoperability breeds competition and real innovation because nobody can lean on a network effect the way modern walled gardens do.