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

    Way to troll. It's so sad that every one of your points is fairly well wrong and could earn you a post nearly as long in refute for each. If you read that post and thought it was insightful, you've been trolled.

    Goodbye.

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  2. "a ways" to go? From a veteran editor... by mi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is not "ways" a plural? Can article "a" be used in front of it? Ever?..

    Could a native English-speaker kindly explain it to this Ukrainian immigrant?

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