On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 at 15:30 Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Gregs are revolting! Indeed ... polyfills, css, bootstrap, IE, etc ... > why does all this rubbish even need to exist. >
Because the Internet is made up of an open market of ideas that grows organically based on what people want. > I think the classic example was jQuery, which should have never *needed* > to be invented, it was huge tub of grout filler to plug the holes and > inconsistencies in browsers. > Not really. It arose as an abstraction to do new things in browsers in an easier way. [ ... ] I wish 20 years ago someone had created a fresh thin cross-platform program > that just ran apps in some standard bytecode format and had nothing to do > with html or JS (leave that to the traditional browser). Imagine if Java > applets, Flash and Silverlight had merged into some kind of unified > framework with a VM, a bytecode and wide language support and designers, > and all it was designed for was running real world apps and games. That was > my argument this morning, that browsers should have always just browsed, > and something else should have taken its place, a "distributed app player" > of some kind. But oh well ... a man can dream ... > Ah yes, the one true way to do all the things in a top-down, planned way. Sorry, that isn't how the Internet was built. David. -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
