On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> The web is the future of computing, that much is evident. > > The web is not even the present of computing. Most humans > access the Internet using custom clients ("apps") on mobile > devices.
Really depends how you define web doesn't it? If by web you're referring specifically to HTTP, which the majority of those custom clients are using to transmit data, then yes, the web is the present of computing. Even if you define it more generally as programming with some kind of network interaction involved, it's still the present of computing. In fact the only definitions of web that it fails this test is the very narrow definition which refers only to HTML being loaded into a browser. (And though facebook has shown that this approach on mobile is still not really viable yet, it is still being worked on). Look at firefoxOS. No consensus has really emerged yet on this, though it seems to be the direction many are headed.
