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Isn't there something to be said for the standard port 80 website that the average person can use with their built in web browser without the need to install cu
by NathanKP 14y ago
Isn't there something to be said for the standard port 80 website that the average person can use with their built in web browser without the need to install custom apps? I'd rather see everyone using a "sociopathic person's website" to stay in touch than see a fragmented environment in which some people use one program to stay in touch on port X using one protocol while other people use port Y, while you don't like either but instead want to use port Z.
- pokesomesmot 14y agoThere is a lot to be said for standards. But that has nothing to do with the focus on the web to the exclusion of all else that is possible. As someone said, TCP/IP became a standard, even though there were superior alternatives. The benefits to us that you observe are in the adoption of a common standard, not in the choice of the protocol. Client-server is standard. NAT is standard. Firewalls are standard. When everyone adeheres to standards, it's a good thing. But these choices are poor and do not benefit us as much as better alternatives would.