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HTML isn't about UI. Never has been and never will. The pain will continue until people understand.
by otabdeveloper4 7y ago
HTML isn't about UI. Never has been and never will.
The pain will continue until people understand.
- majewsky 7y agoHTML/CSS/JS is arguably the most successful UI platform in the world, so this is obviously wrong. You just want HTML to not be about UI.
- otabdeveloper4 7y agoSomething can be "not about UI" and "the most successful UI platform in the world" at the same time. Many such cases. :) Point is, HTML is a document format, not a UI toolkit. That's how it was designed and that's how it continues to evolve. This is probably not a ideal situation, but trying to change it now probably won't do any good.
- contravariant 7y agoWell like it or not but the rise of REST APIs suggests that HTTP is extraordinarily well suited to use as a general interface so it's not too surprising that the related markup language HTML has found similar use as a user interface.