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Customer needs for most websites basically haven't changed in two decades. Outside of a few complex SPAs doing interesting things, structurally we're building
by muglug 6y ago
Customer needs for most websites basically haven't changed in two decades.
Outside of a few complex SPAs doing interesting things, structurally we're building the same things we were building back then (blogs, brochure sites etc) — it's just that the way we're building them has become (optionally) much more complex.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoIn my area it seems everybody wants some kind of web app or VPN. In the good old days things like file sharing and inventory management could be done on the LAN but with COVID everybody is scattered all over the place. My clients have this expectation that they'll be able to use any random smartphone to scan a QR-code in the Phillipines and have that magically publish inventory updates to accountants Texas. Everybody wants to bring their own phone or computer. Everyone wants all their data to be accessible through the web. It's chaos I tell you, and a security nightmare to boot. Personally I think of the web as a highway: great place for a billboard, not such a great place to be storing or mutating sensitive information.
- nicbou 6y agoIt's good to remind ourselves that all of this is optional. Most websites could be a simple WordPress do. Many brochure websites should be static. There are benefits to straying from that, but they come at a cost.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhich is why I keep happily doing .NET and Java Web based development with SSR as always, APIs now return REST, GraphQL, gRPC instead of XML-RPC/SOAP, or whatever makes the FE team happy. I know enough of Web FE development to jump in and fix a couple of bugs when needed, and on my own consulting gigs as side job, I only do native desktop development as kind of therapy.
- fpoling 6y ago20 years ago one could assume 1024x800 and it would mostly work. Then smart phones came with small vertical screens and touch input. Then tablets made it necessary to support screen rotation. Then retina displays required to support dpi-aware images. Then dark/light mode came and general color management...
- muglug 6y ago> 20 years ago one could assume 1024x800 and it would mostly work. IE 5 and 6 and Netscape Navigator 4 would all beg to differ. Having made simple websites two decades apart, CSS is much less hassle nowadays.