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Back to the top buttons are a symptom of the system-within-a-system feature of Web. The Web page isn't a document: it's a system, a virtual machine. Just like r
by dmos62 6y ago
Back to the top buttons are a symptom of the system-within-a-system feature of Web. The Web page isn't a document: it's a system, a virtual machine. Just like running another OS in VirtualBox implies bad interoperability and a lot of duplicated effort with the host OS, so too does running web pages. In a quest to be everything, Web became a bogged down, developer-time devouring beast. It can do almost anything, but you don't want to do anything on it.
- sergeykish 6y agoIt means universal, think smalltalk. Has ups and downs - not much integration with a host comes with independence from a host. IE was created because Microsoft feared web would make OS inconsiderable. There was bold claim even before Netscape's Constellation [1]. So everything goes like it was predicted years ago. [1] https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/02_07/developers/02_07_97_2.html https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/02_...