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The web was an app delivery platform 20 years ago, at least that’s what the folks at Sun and Adobe tried to tell us. But then everyone pitched a collective fit
by 0x445442 4y ago
The web was an app delivery platform 20 years ago, at least that’s what the folks at Sun and Adobe tried to tell us. But then everyone pitched a collective fit and rejected injection of a runtime container into the browser. Now we have the current situation of an inferior technology and architecture being used as an app delivery platform. If one views a web browser as a proper platform for hosting applications I’d argue WASM and even the aforementioned tech (applets/flash) are superior.
- toomanydoubts 4y agoIn what ways are applets/flash superior to browser engines/JS? I really can't see it at all.
- 0x445442 4y agoIn the way I think IntellJ is a better application than attempting to rewrite IntellJ in JS and run it in the browser. This would hold for any number of applications. HTTP, HTML and the DOM were not designed to run rich applications. It’s been a continuous series of hacks to, IMO, solve a problem that was solved a year or two after this nonsense started. The problem was that of application delivery and updating. But iTunes quickly showed widely accepted software did not need to be distributed on physical media but could be installed and updated over the network.