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Web developers should be angry that their craft has so much churn and leads to works that end up being ephemeral in nature. That people in the field exalt this

Web developers should be angry that their craft has so much churn and leads to works that end up being ephemeral in nature. That people in the field exalt this state is upsetting because this state is bad for both users and developers.

dannyw 5y ago
Some web developers might get a decent amount of their income from maintenance.
bawolff 5y ago
Idk, i remember having to support IE6. That was not fun. Some churn is good.
pengwing 5y ago
Dear Mr. Client, a whole year has passed, the web app we developed for you is obsolete. Paying us a lot of money to develop a new version appears to be the only option.
- xyzzyx 5y ago
  Dear Mr. User, a whole year has passed, in order to keep up with the latest trends we now require you to give permission for mining your user data via our new microservice every time you enter our site, we have made sure the experience will be a pleasant one, as we added 5 mb of JS and a full screen video to keep your browser occupied as we process your requests. Be aware that nothing substantial has changed, only the UI has again changed for no apparent reason, the site is now once again trice as large and hangs twice as much on previous generation mobile devices. Dear Mr. Software Developer, as you might know all useful software now runs on the web. Writing a web browser is no small task, this is why at Google and W3C we pride ourself in growing our spec beyond any reasonable proportions to make sure you don't try to create a competitor to render a simple HTML5 page. After all, why would you?
AgentME 5y ago
... The article is about a single bit of potential churn that was significant because it was so unusual for the web to have churn in standardized features, and regardless the churn didn't end up happening. The web seems like a success story as far as backwards-compatibility goes.

dannyw 5y ago

Some web developers might get a decent amount of their income from maintenance.

bawolff 5y ago

Idk, i remember having to support IE6. That was not fun. Some churn is good.

pengwing 5y ago

Dear Mr. Client, a whole year has passed, the web app we developed for you is obsolete. Paying us a lot of money to develop a new version appears to be the only option.

xyzzyx 5y ago
Dear Mr. User, a whole year has passed, in order to keep up with the latest trends we now require you to give permission for mining your user data via our new microservice every time you enter our site, we have made sure the experience will be a pleasant one, as we added 5 mb of JS and a full screen video to keep your browser occupied as we process your requests. Be aware that nothing substantial has changed, only the UI has again changed for no apparent reason, the site is now once again trice as large and hangs twice as much on previous generation mobile devices. Dear Mr. Software Developer, as you might know all useful software now runs on the web. Writing a web browser is no small task, this is why at Google and W3C we pride ourself in growing our spec beyond any reasonable proportions to make sure you don't try to create a competitor to render a simple HTML5 page. After all, why would you?

AgentME 5y ago

... The article is about a single bit of potential churn that was significant because it was so unusual for the web to have churn in standardized features, and regardless the churn didn't end up happening. The web seems like a success story as far as backwards-compatibility goes.