All of your complaints are about specific choices of the developers, not the technology. Right now, javascript and web apps are being written (for the most part) by young, inexperienced, often graphically-oriented individuals. Soon, more experience developers will join the scene and start writing useful apps that aren't just eye-candy.
>Any my emails are *my* emails, stored on my local box. If I want to back it up, just copy the file. If I want a search that actually works, I can just grep the file, and so on. Just better in every way. The vast majority of people appreciate that they just get all that for free and without bother in gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc. -Mike On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructiona...@gmail.com>wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Text editors that rely on JavaScript are abominations, period. > > Any widget that does sucks IMO. I've had to use javascript replacements of > the > standard <select> tag too, and wow it blows. > > Wait for its animation to start up. Wait for its animation to finish. Click > an > option.... it didn't work, sorry my browser isn't good enough. > > Usually I just abandon the site, but sometimes I can't. So switch to > firefox 3. > Wait for the animation to start up. Wait for it to finish. Click the thing. > Wait > for it to animate again. Oops, I got the wrong option, I'll just hit the > down > arrow.... sorry, didn't work. > > Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh! > > "but but look at the super cool animations jquery is amazing! and i can > style this > thing better than the built in so nyah" > > Gah. > > > > Look, look -> There's my cake, and I'm eating it! > > This is one thing I love about running mutt in screen. If I have access to > my home > box at all (directly or ssh) it works well. If I left a message half read, > when I > come back to it, it is still half read! No need to hunt it down again among > the > read messages, no need to scroll back to my original position. The screen > is > *exactly* as I left it. > > Any my emails are *my* emails, stored on my local box. If I want to back it > up, > just copy the file. If I want a search that actually works, I can just grep > the > file, and so on. Just better in every way. >
