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Sure, the web has given us an awesome UI toolkit. Ship that to your users. You're conflating a lot of issues in this post, many of which are orthogonal to Howe
by ezyang 14y ago
Sure, the web has given us an awesome UI toolkit. Ship that to your users.
You're conflating a lot of issues in this post, many of which are orthogonal to Howell's idea, which is making it difficult for us to talk about the core technical idea (which is certainly not perfect, but you're focusing on the wrong things.)
- voyou 14y agoYeah, but Howell's ideas are pretty much orthogonal to the web. A program that allows a number of virtual machines to cooperate in providing an interface to the user isn't an uninteresting idea, but it solves almost none of the problems the web solves (things like, standards for transmitting, displaying, and interacting with hypermedia).