Re:Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015
by wwweston on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:05PM
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> With CSS, or JavaScript, the app may just not work.
When it comes to CSS, generally most apps will continue to work even if the CSS is simply ignored.
Because that was one big point of CSS. Separation of presentation from content and function.
It's funny. That kind of separation of concerns is something developers talk about valuing, but the SPA/webapp craze erodes the user-facing aspect of it, even while developers are very proud to demonstrate they're thinking hard about which specific kind of separated-concern architecture they're working with well away from the boundary where an outside user or UA would care.
Re:Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015
by joepie91_ on Sunday July 12, 2015 @05:05PM
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Yes, highly interactive applications are an exception. But most things people build on the web (except for games) aren't highly interactive.
A forum, for example, isn't highly interactive, whereas an online spreadsheet editor is.
I think that is just an outdated idea that does not apply to highly interactive, long-lived web applications. The user agent is well within its rights to ignore anything it wants, of course, but the user agent is not owed anything by the server. With CSS, or JavaScript, the app may just not work.