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> If you have some "thing", that is so grotesque that it needs to break a users web browser in order to work correctly, you no longer have a "site". You have a
by rrwo 4y ago
> If you have some "thing", that is so grotesque that it needs to break a users web browser in order to work correctly, you no longer have a "site". You have a creature, you have an application.
There is nothing "grotesque" about writing web applications.
That is the entire point of HTML5 + CSS3 + AJAX.
With modern Chrome-based browsers and Firefox I can write an application that can be used by Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, iPhone and Android users who need only visit that site.
No installation necessary, and (most importantly) no gatekeeping of apps by Apple, Google or Microsoft.
- svnpenn 4y ago> No installation necessary, and (most importantly) no gatekeeping of apps by Apple, Google or Microsoft. This is kind of misleading, as you need to install a browser for it to work. Granted, most computers already have that, but the browser is acting as a "runtime" in this situation. Contrast with other programming languages such as Go or Rust, that produce a single executable that can be dropped in a folder and ran.