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Meanwhile, platforms that don't even try to wedge their technology into the HTML/CSS/JS universe have better applications.
by teacup50 11y ago
Meanwhile, platforms that don't even try to wedge their technology into the HTML/CSS/JS universe have better applications.
- azakai 11y agoIn some ways they do, but they are also nonstandard, with the downsides that that brings. Neither overall approach is perfect, it's good that we have a combination of both in our field.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoWhy get hung up on the fact that something is non-standard? Things don't just pop into existence as a standard way of doing things. Some core group of people has to agree on them and then away we go - we have a standard! That's why everybody should actively use non-standard things that they want to become standards.
- pcwalton 11y agoWe're talking about Web browsers. Technologies that try to integrate into Web browsers specifically but don't have a good compatibility story with the platform haven't had a lot of success.
- mambodog 11y agoSome examples of non-standard extensions which have fallen by the wayside (or failed outright): ActiveX Java Applets Flash Silverlight VBScript (and other non-JS scripting langs) NaCL Dart (via a native VM)