> So what am I missing? Money and resume driven development. Just being a webmaster integrating a simple design could be done by "anyone" so not paying so wel

> So what am I missing? Money and resume driven development. Just being a webmaster integrating a simple design could be done by "anyone" so not paying so well anymore. So came the idea: now we're not doing websites, we're doing webapps. Suddenly fresh-out-of-school engineers can try to implement GUI concepts they vastly misunderstood, but in javascript and limited by the DOM. So that's years of work to maybe get a tenth of the performances of desktop apps: javascript interpreters to optimize, browsers, frameworks and then the apps themselves. Add the rise of smartphone apps and you even get the excuse of "we made an API for the apps, so why not use it for the frontend".