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Nah, you're just focusing on the opportunities to improve rather than counting the victories. Here's my top 3 big steps forward of the last 20 years: * Webapps
by jjoonathan 3y ago
Nah, you're just focusing on the opportunities to improve rather than counting the victories. Here's my top 3 big steps forward of the last 20 years:
* Webapps don't need to be installed
* Webapps work on all platforms without vendor lock-in
* Webapps aren't trusted and get sandboxed by default
and a bunch of minor victories along the way (you can right click -> inspect every webapp, APIs generally exist and have entered the cultural lexicon, cross-site SSO exists and works).
- actionfromafar 3y agoTelemetry, ads, SAAS, terms of service, data breaches, platform effects.
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- pavlov 3y agoThese are good points. At the same time, a lot of the UI tooling and APIs feel like we went back 30+ years. Everybody is still reinventing the pop-up menu button (aka “select”). I really thought this was a solved problem in NeXT by the early nineties.
- intrasight 3y ago> Webapps don't need to be installed Was true of what I was doing in 1988 too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Project
- text0404 3y agovrml was also invented 30+ years ago but we're not lamenting that webgl is solving an already-solved problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML