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It just hit me. The web produces bad UI. I saw a demo of Alan Kay showing a smalltalk environment from the 70s. Wow, we haven't even caught up to that yet.
by mempko 4y ago
It just hit me. The web produces bad UI. I saw a demo of Alan Kay showing a smalltalk environment from the 70s. Wow, we haven't even caught up to that yet.
- corrral 4y agoYep, web UI work is generally worse (more effort for worse results) than other application UI work. Styling is nicer than on most other platforms but with any decent UI toolkit you shouldn't be doing much styling anyway. The Web's main problem is that to the extent that it has a UI toolkit, it's god-awful. We should have spent all this time since it became clear "web apps" aren't going away strengthening HTML, and especially the various form elements (better tables and some kind of list view like other platforms have would be great, too). Instead it's largely stuck in place, and we hack in poor-performing custom half-broken elements that are different on every site, wasting absolutely incredible amounts of both developer and user time. Truly, the time-cost to humanity of web UI's inadequacy is huge.