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Longtime lurker, I just created an account to respond to this thread. Why not consider how much software has improved our life collectively and only find fault
by yoit 5y ago
Longtime lurker, I just created an account to respond to this thread.
Why not consider how much software has improved our life collectively and only find faults in it.
Developer is someone who knows how to instruct machines. They are not the owner of the product. So it might not their decision to disable right click.
The era that author talks about when everything was achievable with "html form", we should also consider the number of people who had access to the internet at that time. Also most of the people were technologist or early adopters. The usecases have changed in last "28 years" that "HTML forms" are not enough. The problem they solved in 1993 was good for that time but it does not always fit for the current standards and requirements.
There are 1.7 billion websites[1]. If we apply "Six Sigma" to it, still there would be 5780 websites would be defected. what are the chances that author might be browsing only those sites /s
I'd like to close with this - we have made huge advancements as a humankind and many of them seems impossible imagine without software developers. I'm grateful for all the technologist before me for their contributions even if its just "JAVASCRIPT-POWERED CUSTOM TEXTBOX WIDGET".