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I sometimes use the phrase "don't use a rocketship to pick up your groceries" for a similar phenomenon. Many (most?) webapps are trying to do things that a sim
by rossdavidh 8y ago
I sometimes use the phrase "don't use a rocketship to pick up your groceries" for a similar phenomenon. Many (most?) webapps are trying to do things that a simpler web page would do just fine, and the amount of bloat that comes from that is a real problem.
- coffeefirst 8y agoYes. All the slowest, buggiest sites I encounter every day are SPA's that could easily be a regular old forms, especially once you consider datalist, validation, date inputs, and other things that used to require javascript enhancements.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoI recently built some web apps for fun, and it shocked me how much was already there. Just an HTML form and a POST handler with no JS at all goes shockingly far.