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> For example, I work on an app which wouldn't be possible on the web 5-10 years ago What is it? Because I highly doubt that statement. Ajax, DHTML, ActiveX, a
by meritt 7y ago
> For example, I work on an app which wouldn't be possible on the web 5-10 years ago
What is it? Because I highly doubt that statement. Ajax, DHTML, ActiveX, and Java Applets offered effectively the same solutions in the late 90s.
- ecmascript 7y agoWell, 5 years may have been a stretch. Maybe more like 10+. Doubt it as much as you want but we use several newer apis and phones wouldn't be powerful enough to run the damn thing 10 years ago since it's a web app.
- meritt 7y agoI don't think you're making a good case for yourself. It would be extremely difficult to run Slack on a computer from the 1990s, but we sure as hell still had chat apps.
- ecmascript 7y agoI don't think the majority of people had chat apps on their phones even in the late 2000s. I remember a little of the pre smartphone days. Basically no one installed any apps that didn't come with the phone. I tried to download some apps on some symbian device but experience was shitty as hell and many times they didn't even work for some unknown reason.