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I don't like the shot at Flipboard here. HTML was designed for marking up (hypertext) documents. It's a perfectly fine language for marking up documents. It's a
by jowiar 12y ago
I don't like the shot at Flipboard here. HTML was designed for marking up (hypertext) documents. It's a perfectly fine language for marking up documents. It's a terrible kludge for defining application user interfaces, as anyone who has ever built such an application can attest.
What we're seeing now is a shift to JSON-over-HTTP from HTML-over-HTTP as the protocol of choice for connecting the internet, along with a whole pile of different tools for defining application user interfaces (partially because, up to now, no decent standard exists).
- vcarl 12y agoNot to mention that they open sourced their interface for rendering React on canvas, which is opens the door for more (smaller) companies to do the same. What they did is phenomenally friendly to the open source community.
- spyc3r 12y agoAlso Flipboard is no less accessible then it already was as a native application. The problems with making an app rendered in canvas can be solved (largely because they open sourced their work).