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Why does the author think JS/TS would be useful in the browser without the APIs we have today? Most people want to do things online aside from reading text.
by mplewis 5y ago
Why does the author think JS/TS would be useful in the browser without the APIs we have today? Most people want to do things online aside from reading text.
- joshstrange 5y agoThis was extremely perplexing for me, I saw that and thought "Ok, I like that, let's see what other ideas you have" but then I got to all the API's they want removed and that's of no interest to me. It seems the author pines for a simpler web, one that only uses JS/TS for tiny UI reasons (think jQuery-type operations) and ignores the world of web apps.
- dijit 5y agoWould be nice to have two classes of browser you could switch between. a Webapp browser which is full fat and heavy, like an OS with task managers and so on. (this is what Chrome is today) and a basic web browser for reading news, banking, watching youtube or commenting on forums. The issue is that we're all forced to always run #1, which leads to developers thinking every site should be a full fat webapp... when webapps should be reserved for actually advanced things like games or google maps.