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You're absolutely correct. When we went to the browser we took 30 years of UI development knowledge and UI/UX principle and flushed it down the toilet. Only v
by api 3y ago
You're absolutely correct.
When we went to the browser we took 30 years of UI development knowledge and UI/UX principle and flushed it down the toilet.
Only very recently have we started to gain composability in browser UIs through things like React, and it's a sad facsimile of the widget composability we had in WYSIWYG UI development on PCs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The web is a shit UI platform, but that's because it wasn't designed to be one. UIs were shoehorned into a hypertext system designed for viewing documents.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoIt's also a shit document platform even though that is what it was designed for.
- api 3y agoIt's really a quick hack that got mass adopted and then became the center of gravity due to network effects. ... like DOS, Unix, BASIC, JavaScript, and loads of other things we got stuck with at various times. Network effects are a force of nature that doesn't care about you. They are not your friend.
- financltravsty 3y agoHTML is a shit spec. Without strong semantic elements, it's impossible to reliably parse any HTML document without using your eyes.
- meiraleal 3y agoThe web is a much better UI platform than what's available in linux desktop and whatever took 30 years of UX development in Linux wasn't flushed down the toilet (emacs, vi, GNU, ...). MS Windows users miss their Delphi/VB software.