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The amount of importance placed on this concept of The Web is strange. It's like a religion. Any developer working on any application has to make decisions an
by danenania 16y ago
The amount of importance placed on this concept of The Web is strange. It's like a religion.
Any developer working on any application has to make decisions and trade-offs about platforms, user experience, accessibility, and a hundred other things. If something else is more important than making the back button work or having pretty urls, then who cares? Focus on what improves your app the most, not adhering to tradition. It breaks the web? Get real, it doesn't break anything. It just has other priorities. The only reasonable barometers for whether something works are user adoption and satisfaction.
- naich 16y agoI totally agree. We are seeing the emergence of completely new uses for web pages, i.e. using a web page as an interactive tool rather than a content delivery system. At the moment the infrastructure just isn't there to provide proper support so we are having to work round it, sometimes with fairly nasty cludges. Until the infrastructure catches up with the change in use, there will have to be compromises. Saying these compromises are intolerable problems that should be fixed is unhelpful and missing the wider picture.