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> The web is not applications Unfortunately, all the people who work on the web disagree. They need what could be a simple, text based site into a full blown "

• rektide 5y ago
  The web can do programmatic, interactive systems very well. In my opinion, it does it much much better than applications. And it should be doing it. (Alas, a huge huge huge amount of web applications don't espouse the virtues of the web, don't use url based routing, don't have good service worker caching, & countless other horrific faults. I continue to see that as not the web's fault but I think there's a lot of room for opinions on this, at least.) But interactive web systems shouldn't regress to the hostile, anti-user, anti-extensibility stance of an application. It should continue to offer the upsides of being the web.