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Completely agree with you on the bad flash and links point. Not sure I agree with you on the webapps points though. Would have been nice to have some depth on w

Completely agree with you on the bad flash and links point. Not sure I agree with you on the webapps points though. Would have been nice to have some depth on why you feel PushState is a "bandaid" rather than a full solution. You also seem to have not taken into account how new HTML5 is. Sure generally a semantic solution exists now but when the vast majority of sites were written this wasn't the case.

gambler 14y ago
It's increasingly difficult to build a solid foundation for a modern progressively enhanced web app in pure HTML/CSS. It's still perfectly doable, but difficult enough that a lot of developers simply don't want do it, justifying it by saying they save a lot of time. (Usually that's short-term savings and long-term losses, but I don't want to debate that right now.) PushState does not address this critical issue. To put it in a different way, current web standards encourage people to abandon page model entirely. When they need SEO, the thought is "oh, damn, I need to re-implement my wonderful JavaScript on the stupid server". That is backwards and is not progressive enhancement. What we really need is an update to core standards (not JavaScript) that allows for building dynamic applications in declarative way and without abandoning the page model. Such updates are possible.