It’s time to kill the web app

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by giblaz on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:16PM (#15322301)

This to both. However, the problem with the web is there are old implementations that must be maintained in browsers for backwards compatibility. The issue with this is that it increases the barrier to entry for web development because it's much harder for a new person to even know what options to gravitate to.

Of course, there are books and guides to help people, but how would someone figure out which guides are worth it? There are a lot of highly rated books on the topic of web development and if you don't already know what you need, it can be daunting.

But yes, flexbox is great.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by spynxic on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:26PM (#15322338)

For the sake of creativity, suppose browsers were the wrong direction to take for web exploration. What do we do now?

The same idea may be applied to an operating system's ability to allow a user to operate on their machine.

Edit: It would be useful to consider why the need for a universal interface to the internet was originally sought out.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by rident on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:15PM (#15322883)

Douglas Crockford would say The Seif Project: http://seif.place/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWRoLf7bns

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by webjprgm on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:46PM (#15322402)

Telnet? That's the alternative I can remember.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by kbutler on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:53PM (#15322431)

Gopher!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by azernik on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:53PM (#15322827)

The old implementations are going away a lot faster than any greenfield environment can totally replace the browser.

[ Parent | on HN ]