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> The web is for sharing content, not for games, text editors, and all that stuff. I see google trying to blur the lines between that, but why is it necessary?
by bpizzi 12y ago
> The web is for sharing content, not for games, text editors, and all that stuff. I see google trying to blur the lines between that, but why is it necessary?
Because innovation happens when you start thinking out of the box?
- chcokr 12y agoThis. Plus, sure, WWW was probably meant for sharing content, but HTML/JS is a front-end standard not necessarily tied with WWW.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoInnovation can happen when you start thinking out of the box. That doesn't mean it does happen. I don't find much about "webdev" to be terribly innovative. In many ways it is a large step backwards or sideways.
- organsnyder 12y agoI agree that from a technology standpoint, the web development field is absolutely atrocious—at all levels. On the server side, broken languages control vast swaths of marketshare, and the client side has plenty of its own issues. From the user's perspective, however, there's been a ton of innovation, and they (usually) don't know/care that most applications are built on houses of cards.
- mattkrea 12y agoOut of curiosity what broken languages in particular are you referring to? I'm also somewhat curious at to what language(s) you use.
- organsnyder 12y agoI really should have made that singular—I was referring to PHP. Historically, my language of choice for the server-side has been Java (I interned at an IBM lab that was involved in the creation of Eclipse, so I used it a lot at the start of my career). More recently, I've been dabbling in Ruby, and I'd also like to give Scala and Go a try.
- organsnyder 12y agoMore specifically, innovation happens when innovators push the limits of existing technologies (even if they're bad or not intended for that use) rather than waiting for the platform to catch up. For most of its history, HTML has been codifying usage rather than prescribing it. The one major exception—XHTML—was never widely adopted, partly for this reason.