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I'm not sure I should respond, since trolling web-related posts seems to be your favorite past time, so I'll only respond to one thing you said. > And unfortun

by Touche 13y ago

I'm not sure I should respond, since trolling web-related posts seems to be your favorite past time, so I'll only respond to one thing you said. > And unfortunately, the organisations best placed to do that today seem determined to ignore all the warning signs from the history of software development and pursue a futile alternative anyway. What makes you so sure of that? Step one of a scorched earth strategy is getting all (and I mean all) platforms on board. If it doesn't run on an iPhone it is completely doomed, for example. So the lack of visible proof that teams exist trying to reinvent the web from scratch is not something you're going to get into the project is already very far along.

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pekk 13y ago
Android apps don't run on an iPhone. Firefox OS apps don't run on an iPhone. Are they doomed? I've waited a few years for the HTML5 app platform future to arrive and I've realized two things. First, it isn't happening, at most someone is going to build a new app platform partly out of old bits and pieces and that will have questionable uptake. Second, as far as we do get there the result will still not be clearly better than "native apps." So I am not waiting for the HTML5 future to save us all from native apps any more.