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Well this one had a nice story on it: http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html

by salient 13y ago

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ghc 13y ago
> Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things. Little did he know that we'd have Microsoft to thank for the innovation (XMLHttpRequest) that would eventually bring the era of desktop software to a close.
- Zancarius 13y ago
  I also found this part amusing: > Somewhere around this point, people began spewing mindless drivel about how browsers would somehow magically replace operating systems eventually, and how in the future all applications would be "web based". This, of course, got Microsoft's attention. Maybe we haven't gotten there completely yet, but holy cow. WebGL, more web-based applications than you can shake a stick at, and OS emulation in-browser. I think it's close. :) One person's future is another person's mindless drivel, I guess. Edit: Oh gosh, it's still being updated. http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    Thankfully mobile OS will save us from such future.
    - Zancarius 13y ago
      I admit. I don't know how I feel about that.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  I know most people are psyched about the end of desktop software, but personally I can't stand apps that don't belong in the browser, being ported to run in the browser.
  - gaius 13y ago
    Yeah, it's as if apps were written in VBA, and you opened OUTLOOK.DOC in Word to read your email. Well that's exactly what Gmail is.... Crazy.
- betterunix 13y ago
  Translation: we can thank Microsoft for creating a world where you need to run whatever arbitrary software some website sent you just so that you can click on some underlined text and go to a different website. (Also the fact that at least half the websites I see these days manage to break basic browser features like "Back," "Forward," "Bookmarks," etc.)
  - weland 13y ago
    Yep, this is a good summary of it. I'm seriously contemplating lurking on Gopher again, just to get rid of all this crap.

Well this one had a nice story on it: http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html

by salient 13y ago

Well this one had a nice story on it: http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html

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ghc 13y ago

> Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things. Little did he know that we'd have Microsoft to thank for the innovation (XMLHttpRequest) that would eventually bring the era of desktop software to a close.

Zancarius 13y ago
I also found this part amusing: > Somewhere around this point, people began spewing mindless drivel about how browsers would somehow magically replace operating systems eventually, and how in the future all applications would be "web based". This, of course, got Microsoft's attention. Maybe we haven't gotten there completely yet, but holy cow. WebGL, more web-based applications than you can shake a stick at, and OS emulation in-browser. I think it's close. :) One person's future is another person's mindless drivel, I guess. Edit: Oh gosh, it's still being updated. http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Thankfully mobile OS will save us from such future.
  - Zancarius 13y ago
    I admit. I don't know how I feel about that.
sliverstorm 13y ago
I know most people are psyched about the end of desktop software, but personally I can't stand apps that don't belong in the browser, being ported to run in the browser.
- gaius 13y ago
  Yeah, it's as if apps were written in VBA, and you opened OUTLOOK.DOC in Word to read your email. Well that's exactly what Gmail is.... Crazy.
betterunix 13y ago
Translation: we can thank Microsoft for creating a world where you need to run whatever arbitrary software some website sent you just so that you can click on some underlined text and go to a different website. (Also the fact that at least half the websites I see these days manage to break basic browser features like "Back," "Forward," "Bookmarks," etc.)
- weland 13y ago
  Yep, this is a good summary of it. I'm seriously contemplating lurking on Gopher again, just to get rid of all this crap.