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Why is it that everything I read in this blog pisses me off? Yes. Of course there is. We aren't nearly at the point yet where the Internet works as quickly as
by unalone 18y ago
Why is it that everything I read in this blog pisses me off?
Yes. Of course there is. We aren't nearly at the point yet where the Internet works as quickly as hardware. We don't have a world with wonderful connections everywhere. Desktop apps are leagues faster in every regard. And I'd say we need a long time before that'll be fixed.
Plus, once you work inside a web browser, you don't just have the layer abstraction, you have a visual abstraction. Know what I like about Mail and Newsfire? The fact that they have ultraminimal interfaces for what they do. When I stick that inside Safari, I suddenly have something that's uglier than the original thing was. Even MobileMe suffers from that visually.
For somebody whose URL would imply a high level of criticism, which is always good, these posts always seem to advocate very sucky things.
- axod 18y agoQuite a lot of people just run webapps in prism etc these days, so they pretty much look like desktop apps.
- unalone 18y agoNah, sorry. Not the came. The mere existence of a shell means you've got more interface than is actually necessary.
- raganwald 18y agoWhy is it that everything I read in this blog pisses me off? Uh, because you're human, and like the rest of us, you take incredibly trivial things far too personally? Seriously, if I asked you whether somewhere on this Earth we can find someone whose views are diametrically opposed to yours AND they express them in a manner you find obnoxious, I guess you would say that statistically, that person--call him "un-unalone"--is out there somewhere. And no, you wouldn't get pissed off knowing that un-unalone exists and is being vehemently wrong every time he speaks. But if we conjure un-unalone up for you and you read what he's actually writing, you get angry. I guess we'd all like to be perfectly Zen about this, and shrug our shoulders, but we aren't and we don't. FWIW, I think Jeff Atwood is pretty-much the un-raganwald, right down to being waaaaaaaaaaay more likable than I am :-)