Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by vim_wannabe on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:41AM
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I think the Youtube redesign idea is to use something like polymers or whatever they are called. They are a Google technology supported in Chrome, but since other browsers need to use some clunky and superslow javascript polyfill Chrome suddenly feels like the fast browser.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by ehllo on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:40PM
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you're right, they used Polymer and Material Design for the frontend in combination with the spfjs framework, which was introduced in 2014.
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/05/a-sneak-peek-at-youtu...
Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by dabockster on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:10PM
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Wow, this is evil.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by applecrazy on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:26PM
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Not really. Other browser vendors can implement the standard too, which is called Web Components.
fyi: It's generally considered bad practice to assume bad intentions when alternative explanations suffice.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by jklein11 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:48PM
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I don't think that assumption was unfair. The way that the previous comment was framed, Google implemented this so that other browsers seemed slow. Those intentions seem pretty evil.
With the framing of pushing browsers to implementing the Web Components standard it seems much less evil.
I think the true motivations are likely somewhere in the middle.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by vim_wannabe on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:20AM
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It's still a draft i think.