On 5/16/2014 4:03 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 19:54:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
All of that is just as easily solvable without a web browser and
HTML/CSS/JS. The browser and HTML/etc are completely incidental to the
way those were solved.
We could've had all that by now if so much effort hadn't been wasted
on HTML/etc.
Yes, but today you have the option to build your own framework on top of
WebGL. That basically just leaves the browser as a shell if you want to.
Meh, it leaves the browser as a resource-sucking, interface-damaging
vestigial limb. Besides, the web's already enough of a leaning tower of
abstractions as it is.
imaginable. HTML5 is a rancid burger with half a dog turd on it. Adobe
Flex/Flash/whatever is just simply a big bowl of diarrhea.
Hehe. But you now have this thing called shadow DOM, so you can define
your own HTML5 elements with behaviour. You will probably see UI kits
for that within 1-2 years.
Hmm, taking a quick look at it, it doesn't appear to offer anything that
can't already be done (albeit less hygienically). It appears to just
function as a form of DOM namespaces.
Still a good thing for them to add, of course, just doesn't sound like
it's really all that much of a "create your own elements" feature, at
least any more than what's already possible. Rather, it's just a nice
ability to help aid making/using HTML-based widgets. ('Course, this is
based on only a few minutes of web searching on the topic, so I could be
wrong about any of it.)
It does have the distinction though of being the web technology with by
far the coolest name :)
> (IE9 is holding back development).
Meh, IMO it's not IE9, it's MS's insistence on trying to kill XP without
ever bothering to put out a real replacement (Vista and Win8 were
basically just screwups, and Win7 is really just "MS OSX"). If MS hadn't
refused to put newer IEs on XP (a clear attempt at forcing Windows
upgrades), then we'd be rid of older IEs much quicker.
But no, the newer Windows have gotten so shitty, and so steadfast on
forcing their latest UI-of-the-week "improvements" on anyone who doesn't
want it, that in order to sell Windows upgrades MS has to resort to
things like refusing IE updates. (They can't even manage to compete with
a nearly 15-year-old OS without going so far as yanking security support
and browser updates. That's how bad they've gotten at "improving" and
upgrading Windows.) Ehh, but now I've managed to sidetrack myself on yet
another tangential rant...
