Re:Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating
by DocSavage on Friday February 08, 2008 @02:23PM
(#112268)
The blog entry was tagged by the author as "blasphemy." It should have been tagged "idiocy."
"It’s a simple fact that complex web applications are almost impossible to create."
Maybe for the author. Aside from the stupid notion that complex == funky GUI widgets, it dismisses not only great AJAX frameworks but the Adobe Flex rich internet app building tools. Heck, with Adobe AIR you are making a desktop app that can live in a browser or the desktop. Rich text box controls? How about embedding FCKeditor, YUI's editor, or any of the other AJAX text editor components.
"And then you have to host this. Once you grow big, you will need a full time system administrator to manage all of this, the way Fog Creek and 37Signals both do."
Right. There's no overhead to creating and distributing desktop apps? You can automagically update customers' software without also managing the process?
The sad thing is I'm actually typing a rebuttal when it's clearly flamebait with an incendiary title. Must.. resist... next time.
"It’s a simple fact that complex web applications are almost impossible to create."
Maybe for the author. Aside from the stupid notion that complex == funky GUI widgets, it dismisses not only great AJAX frameworks but the Adobe Flex rich internet app building tools. Heck, with Adobe AIR you are making a desktop app that can live in a browser or the desktop. Rich text box controls? How about embedding FCKeditor, YUI's editor, or any of the other AJAX text editor components.
"And then you have to host this. Once you grow big, you will need a full time system administrator to manage all of this, the way Fog Creek and 37Signals both do."
Right. There's no overhead to creating and distributing desktop apps? You can automagically update customers' software without also managing the process?
The sad thing is I'm actually typing a rebuttal when it's clearly flamebait with an incendiary title. Must.. resist... next time.