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This proposed solution would eliminate many of the applications that web users use every single day and many more that haven't even been invented yet. No big d

This proposed solution would eliminate many of the applications that web users use every single day and many more that haven't even been invented yet. No big deal. When Apple introduced the App store, a maybe-not-new-but-finally-practical way of shipping applications to end-user devices was born. And they weren't webapps. No JS at first, mostly Objective-C and plists. And was still revolutionary in its reach, and consequences. Then Android came. Still no JS, but XML and Java. So, no, you don't need HTML+JS to deliver rich content application to users.

wvenable 9y ago
You need HTML+JS if you want to deliver one single application to iOS, Android, MacOS, Android, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Chrome OS, Tizen, and OSes that don't even exist yet and not be held to a single proprietary platform owned and managed by a single entity. You could argue that it's not necessary but that's what it is. The site you're posting to now probably wouldn't even exist if it required installing a different proprietary application for every platform.
- bassman9000 9y ago
  You could argue that it's not necessary but that's what it is. Yeah, that's the whole point I'm trying to make. That it's not necessary. That JS it no more special than any other language, and that there are recent, real, practical examples of absolute disruption (Apple/Android app stores) which broke what we thought it was required to deliver content to users. As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification.
  - wvenable 9y ago
    Nobody said JS is special but the point of the article is that code execution (of any kind) is unnecessary. The ironic part is that app store you're arguing for wouldn't even exist without the web. The web is what made Mac OS X viable for users to switch to it (and MS Office). The platform network affects that made Windows a monopoly have been drastically cut down by the web. > As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification. Says another person posting on a web application that runs on every platform out there.

wvenable 9y ago

You need HTML+JS if you want to deliver one single application to iOS, Android, MacOS, Android, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Chrome OS, Tizen, and OSes that don't even exist yet and not be held to a single proprietary platform owned and managed by a single entity. You could argue that it's not necessary but that's what it is. The site you're posting to now probably wouldn't even exist if it required installing a different proprietary application for every platform.

bassman9000 9y ago
You could argue that it's not necessary but that's what it is. Yeah, that's the whole point I'm trying to make. That it's not necessary. That JS it no more special than any other language, and that there are recent, real, practical examples of absolute disruption (Apple/Android app stores) which broke what we thought it was required to deliver content to users. As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification.
- wvenable 9y ago
  Nobody said JS is special but the point of the article is that code execution (of any kind) is unnecessary. The ironic part is that app store you're arguing for wouldn't even exist without the web. The web is what made Mac OS X viable for users to switch to it (and MS Office). The platform network affects that made Windows a monopoly have been drastically cut down by the web. > As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification. Says another person posting on a web application that runs on every platform out there.