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It's almost like the web was never designed as an application platform and it's performing like a document presentation system with applications shoehorned into
by otakucode 12y ago
It's almost like the web was never designed as an application platform and it's performing like a document presentation system with applications shoehorned into it.
- otakucode 12y agoDon't just downvote because you like the web as an application platform. I am serious. The exact reason that these specific extensions being discussed are not standard now, along with dozens of others that would make application development much easier, is because providing an application platform is explicitly not the goal of HTML, CSS, or the web in general.
- striking 12y agoI do think that interactive documents are a very useful tool and that HTML and CSS get us there; but I totally agree that HTML and CSS do not make good applications. The web is for documents. Now if only there were a way to make applications that were delivered in the same fashion as documents, but not constrained by the same poor decisions.
- 72deluxe 12y agoThis is incredibly perceptive and true. It is odd to see how many people are trying to make the web do odd things like running applications in browsers. The constant testing that put people off writing cross-platform applications all those years ago is now multiplied significantly with all the testing they need to do on different browsers under different OSes, or even the same browsers but different versions on the same OSes. It's daft.