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I think you're making a great number of assumptions. There's no reason we can't keep backward compatibility as long as it's desired. No one is "throwing away
by whyme 13y ago
I think you're making a great number of assumptions.
There's no reason we can't keep backward compatibility as long as it's desired.
No one is "throwing away the web", what ever that even means.
We can always put the current stuff in a nice museum and pay tribute to the technological importance it achieved during the evolution of the web! vs an evolution of any seriously flawed specific piece of technology.
Also, this really is not a "want", rather the real problems are creating real needs.
- pcwalton 13y ago> There's no reason we can't keep backward comparability as long as it's desired. That is exactly what Servo is doing.
- TheZenPsycho 13y ago"I would have thought ditching HTML, the box model, CSS and JavaScript to be a more important objective that should come sooner than this. Or another way to put this would be: Wouldn't development efficiency/simplicity be more important than running the current junk in parallel?" Does "ditch" and "junk" mean something other than the common usages of these terms to you? The only assumption I'm making is that you're writing in english.
- whyme 13y agoOne mans junk is another mans treasure. Looks like you're offended. I was suggesting to ditch specific technologies, not the "web" as you put it. So it's... what the web means... That I referred to.
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- sehr 13y agoThe web is made of these technologies.
- whyme 13y agoBut not limited to them.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoRight. You can use xhtml 2.0, you can use flash. you can use java applets. you can use ios apps. you can use android apps. You can use director. you can use axr. you can use activex. you can even use xaml, xul or silverlight. Go on. Use them. I dare you. See how long you last. or invent your own platform and see how quickly everyone switches over to it. I'm sure the only thing stopping this from happening is nobody has tried. Sure!
- bionsuba 13y agoWhy are you taking this so personally? When centering a div on vertically and horizontally is such a hassle, there can definitively be some improvements in the system. HTML lacks many semantics that would cut down on div.content or .main or any number of similar classes. CSS lacks any sort of inherit structure (like SCSS gives or taking it further with SMACSS) and quickly can become a huge mess. JS is still a terrible language with no support for basic things classes or importing.