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> Html is elastic by nature, and html 5 will win over > native apps because it is elastic. HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not figh

> Html is elastic by nature, and html 5 will win over > native apps because it is elastic. HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS tells the browser is something is elastic or not. But all that has nothing to do with winning or loosing. Users don't give a shit if it is elastic or rigid. Does it work smoothly? Great. Does it look great? Superb. Was it coded with HTML/CSS/JS? Who cares… unless it impacts the first two.

chc 14y ago
> HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS tells the browser is something is elastic or not. I think everybody here understands that, and the parent was using it as a shorthand for "the set of technologies commonly used in hypertext documents on the Web." It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.
gbog 14y ago
Actually, users don't give a shit either at how it looks or even if it works smoothly. They just care positively about content and entertainment, look at Wikipedia, Minecraft, early Google. But they also care negatively if something is getting in their way. That's why headers carved into gif images and flash for text and any other mean to force text size upon user are less and less used on the desktop. So why should it be current on my phone?
Koder2013 14y ago
"HTML is for marking up structure of the document" - exactly. The trouble starts when you start trying to use it for app's GUI.

chc 14y ago

> HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS tells the browser is something is elastic or not. I think everybody here understands that, and the parent was using it as a shorthand for "the set of technologies commonly used in hypertext documents on the Web." It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.

gbog 14y ago

Actually, users don't give a shit either at how it looks or even if it works smoothly. They just care positively about content and entertainment, look at Wikipedia, Minecraft, early Google. But they also care negatively if something is getting in their way. That's why headers carved into gif images and flash for text and any other mean to force text size upon user are less and less used on the desktop. So why should it be current on my phone?

Koder2013 14y ago

"HTML is for marking up structure of the document" - exactly. The trouble starts when you start trying to use it for app's GUI.