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HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go

Posted by kdawson on from the walled-gardens-keep-the-wind-out dept.

GMGruman writes "Neil McAllister was helping out a friend whose web developer disappeared. Neil's journey into his friend's website ended up being an archaeological dig through unstable remains, as layers of code in different languages easily broke when touched. Neil realized in that experience that the ever-growing jumble of standards, frameworks, and tools makes web application development harder than it needs to be. Although the Web is all about open standards where anyone can create variations for their specific needs and wants, Neil's experience reminded him that a tightly controlled ecosystem backed by a major vendor does make it easier to define best practices, set development targets, and deliver results with a minimum of chaos. There's something to be said for that."

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  1. Hmmm? by drc003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Neil McAllister was helping out a friend whose Web developer disappeared."

    What? Can you DOS people now?

    1. Re:Hmmm? by TheLink · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah she'll be a beautiful Web 2.0 developer once she gets out of her cocoon.

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  2. Re:Web development is hard for even talented peopl by mujadaddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Say I want to write a speech synthesizer in JavaScript.

    There is no emoticon for what I am feeling.

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  3. Don't know what he's talking about by abigsmurf · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't need to know many languages to develop a good webapp! It only takes HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, PHP and a bit of Linux knowledge to put together a simple app!

  4. Re:Web development is hard for even talented peopl by jizziknight · · Score: 1, Funny

    Eyes wide, mouth vomiting is not what that looks like.

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  5. Re:Web development is hard for even talented peopl by drachenstern · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not gonna feed the trolls for crying out loud!

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