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Some people seem unable to embrace the fact that the web is as much an app delivery platform as it is a content delivery platform. You simply can't get away fr

• detaro 6y ago
  And plenty people build apps to deliver content they could just deliver using the content delivery bits. (EDIT: or just add random JS to content. e.g. the number of blogs that do deliver a html page with some JS to show a loading animation, despite the content also being in the same HTML file, is surprisingly high. Although that at least doesn't interfere with archiving etc, since the content is there)
  • TeMPOraL 6y ago
    The web, as it is today, already let us escape walled gardens of yore,... and jump straight into new ones, built on the web. And these new walled gardens are operated by much more ethically challenged companies. So all in all, the old devil was better than the new one.
• duxup 6y ago
  Also the web as an app delivery platform seems the best / most available route to escape the walled gardens of the world... Sometimes I wonder what exactly folks want, desktop apps only, the web as purely as basic html?
  • asddubs 6y ago
    really just a baseline of functionality IMO. I don't expect a spreadsheet app or game, or what have you to actually work without javascript, but if the page has the purpose of displaying data, I would expect it to at least offer that, even if in a "lesser" form. These days pages that are nothing but images and text just throw blank screens without javascript.