On 5/16/2014 2:21 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
The ideas behind the browser are great, when looked from the Xerox PARC hypermedia research, the implementation however leaves a lot to be desired. The problem is that currently it is a document format, trying to be an application, with a clustf**** of JavaScript/CSS/HTML with more compatibility issues than when C was being standardized.
Exactly. I actually love HTTP/HTML as a document system (especially the older versions of HTML that deliberately left style/formatting mostly up to browser/user, with the ability to override when really necessary). Not perfect of course, but still quite good overall.
But then using it as a GUI engine and software platform is like abusing Latex or PDF to make software run inside Acrobat Viewer. All the effort, bloat and compromises...and for what point?
