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The problem it's solving is the DOM being unsuited to writing the kind of applications that MFC and Swing are used for writing. (which, for the web, is a SPA)
by Tehdasi 7y ago
The problem it's solving is the DOM being unsuited to writing the kind of applications that MFC and Swing are used for writing. (which, for the web, is a SPA)
- andrekandre 7y agoisn’t this pointing to more of a fundamental problem with how browsers/html/document model are designed/implemented than anything else? html was originally a document format, not an app framework, and i think all of these frameworks (large and small) are just workarounds when what we really need is a fundamental re-imagining of what the browser should/could be. sometimes i wonder if alan kay was right when he said the browser should have been basically just byte-code interpreter[1]... [1] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=2 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...