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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by spiralpolitik on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:08PM (#7302607)
Given that HTML was never designed to be an application development language is that surprising ?. Talk about banging a square peg into a round hole!!!
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by iSnow on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:09AM (#7303468)
Javascript was never intended for building large applications, but with the JIT-improvements of the last years, it works.

CSS is really botched and holding us back at this point. Fortunately it is slowly improving (eg. * { box-sizing: border-box } and the flex-box), but still...

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