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Re:Conservative web development by CM30 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:25PM (#17912026)
The issue of course is that about 80% of websites don't need to be 'apps' or SPAs or what not. If you're building a news site for instance, it's basically a blog at the end of the day, not something akin to Gmail or Discord or what not.

Same goes with a lot of sites that seem to be built as web apps despite not needing to be apps in any shape or form.

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Re:Conservative web development by sam0x17 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @07:21PM (#17913717)
It reminds me of when I was in 8th grade and I discovered Visual Studio and made tons of "apps" that were glorified iframes with a menu and an about box for no reason other than I could. It's a clear case of a solution in search of a problem syndrome (not that there aren't proper use cases for complex web/desktop apps, obviously).
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