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On Fighting the Web Itself
- cousin_it 18y ago> these new runtimes have the potential of offering a far better developer experience, and hence, a far better user experience Tim Bray has noted (correctly IMO) that this doesn't follow. "These people have forgotten that all application interfaces (VB, win32, X Windows, Mac OS) used to be "richer environments", and the users abandoned them by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance... Browsers are _more_ usable because they’re _less_ flexible." http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...