3 ms·
Isn‘t that a bit ignorant when nobody is forced to access their e-mail through a website running JIT-compiled JS in a browser with built-in OS features on a blo
by lazyjones 8y ago
Isn‘t that a bit ignorant when nobody is forced to access their e-mail through a website running JIT-compiled JS in a browser with built-in OS features on a bloated, graphical UI of an OS with the burden of 25+ years of backwards compatibility?
A fast client running on a lean OS would not exhibit these problems - and AFAIK gmail still supports IMAP.
(I use Fastmail on MacOS&IOS/Safari and have no such issues either).
- tralarpa 8y agoWeb applications are the best example for Wirth's law. It's really mind-boggling if you think about it. None of the client-side components of a web application were originally designed for what they are used for today: 1. a programming language (Javascript) that turns into a nightmare if you try to write programs with more than a few thousand lines 2. a user interface that requires you to learn two additional declarative languages (HTML and CSS), both of them equally incomplete and crappy. 3. an API between 1 and 2 that is so lacking that you need an external library (e.g. jQuery) to reduce the amount of boilerplate code to a sane level. 4. a network protocol (HTTP) that was designed for static web pages with a few pictures and that has serious performance issues for anything more complex. 5. and finally, the whole thing implemented in a language (C or C++) that is fast but offers you plenty of opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot in obscur ways security-wise. Things are changing fortunately (HTTP/2, QUIC, Rust).
- dasmoth 8y agonobody is forced Pretty certain Google Apps administrators can disable IMAP and POP for their organizations.