alt Hacker News> If you look at the HTML 5 spec it is clear that it's intended to be a substrate for applications
That's the saddest thing I've read today.
(arguably not a terribly sad day)
> If you look at the HTML 5 spec it is clear that it's intended to be a substrate for applications
That's the saddest thing I've read today.
(arguably not a terribly sad day)
Back when it was fashionable to complain about how every Electron application has 30 MB of bloat I did an eval of all the options for x-platform applications that weren't Electron and came to the conclusion that "they all sucked" except for maybe JavaFX -- and not everybody likes Java as much as I do.
Building up to Win 8, Microsoft pushed for grid and flexbox which are the bees knees for laying out applications in HTML.
Compare the annoying nag dialogs in MacOS and Windows. MacOS nags you to buy into Apple Music and other unwanted services with 2025 reskins of the 1999 reskins of the modal dialogs from the 1984 Mac Classic. Windows does the same with ads that look like advertising which I find more visually appealing even if the services are unappealing.
Every time I think about writing a GUI application that's not a web application I think "this is a waste of time" whereas my web applications keep finding new lives as mobile applications, VR applications, etc.