I'm still using a physical keyboard because it's better than a touch keyboard. The Windows 8 interface was an unnecessary and inconvenient change and yes I know you can do X, Y and Z to make it less annoying but then what was the point of the change? It hasn't improved anyone's experience and just puts extra, undocumented steps in that confuse everyone, even the techies. That goes double for Server 2012 where Metro is a completely unnecessary nuisance.
The original poster said there were Chrome only websites. I asked him for a link to one. You answered a question I didn't ask on his behalf. As you're acting on his behalf please provide me with a link to a Chrome only website as I requested, not a lot of whinging about how the Apple project, Webkit, is taking over the world. Seems we both have trouble reading.
You can quite easily write web apps in VB.NET and many people do. Even more write web apps in C#.NET. C# is an ECMA standard language and the web apps use standards such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. But don't let the facts get in the way of your 15 years out of date holy war.
Webkit is not just Chrome. The popularity of Webkit is down to Chrome and Safari. You seem to have a problem with Chrome in particular. I'm still waiting for you to provide me a link to a single website that only works in Chrome (not Webkit which is not a Google project) as per your original post:
Which I can understand after running into websites that can ONLY work in Chrome.
So no actual websites then? You do know that FF and IE also have moz- and ms- CSS tags for their specific implementations so this isn't just a Webkit (which BTW is not just Chrome) thing.
All languages that aren't in major use in corporate i.e. multi-million or billion dollar organisations. You need to come out of the ivory tower occasionally and see what being dependent on proprietary software with no source is like.
You really have no idea what you're talking about do you. Yes all the world's major IT systems are running on HTML and JS and everyone working in corporate IT has no training or experience. Way to dismiss a whole industry. Where do you work that's so massively exciting?
Even if we did live in RMS' world programmers would still get paid because most programmers don't work for software companies. The difference would be that any software provided by third-parties would have all the source available and, having worked on some really shit third-party products without the benefit of source, I know just how important that is. You, on the other hand, must love such helpful error messages as "An unknown error has occurred" when you've got a tight deadline to meet.
The message for businesses: Don't spend too much time worrying about mobile threats. "Don't completely forget it, but apportion your resources toward the actual risk in the real world, which isn't very much"
You forget that most web stuff is in-house apps where that sort of architecture is massive overkill. In any case there's no reason whatsover that you couldn't do that on ASP.NET.
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Dominance? Non-open source? What are you wittering on about?
I'm still using a physical keyboard because it's better than a touch keyboard. The Windows 8 interface was an unnecessary and inconvenient change and yes I know you can do X, Y and Z to make it less annoying but then what was the point of the change? It hasn't improved anyone's experience and just puts extra, undocumented steps in that confuse everyone, even the techies. That goes double for Server 2012 where Metro is a completely unnecessary nuisance.
It doesn't rely on them at all. They're just included for convenience.
In what way does it rely heavily on JQuery? Not noticed that in my day to day work.
The original poster said there were Chrome only websites. I asked him for a link to one. You answered a question I didn't ask on his behalf. As you're acting on his behalf please provide me with a link to a Chrome only website as I requested, not a lot of whinging about how the Apple project, Webkit, is taking over the world. Seems we both have trouble reading.
You can quite easily write web apps in VB.NET and many people do. Even more write web apps in C#.NET. C# is an ECMA standard language and the web apps use standards such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. But don't let the facts get in the way of your 15 years out of date holy war.
Not on Windows 8.1 it doesn't. WinKey+S brings up a much less functional search.
COBOL is a far better language than JS. JS is more likely to be the next VB6.
Webkit is not just Chrome. The popularity of Webkit is down to Chrome and Safari. You seem to have a problem with Chrome in particular. I'm still waiting for you to provide me a link to a single website that only works in Chrome (not Webkit which is not a Google project) as per your original post:
Which I can understand after running into websites that can ONLY work in Chrome.
Do you have one? At all?
So no actual websites then? You do know that FF and IE also have moz- and ms- CSS tags for their specific implementations so this isn't just a Webkit (which BTW is not just Chrome) thing.
I keep hearing this. Let's see some examples.
Like what? Any links to back that up?
I think you mean veracity although voracity is probably more appropriate in this case :-)
Like a homicidal AI?
Dropbox is available on Android.
All languages that aren't in major use in corporate i.e. multi-million or billion dollar organisations. You need to come out of the ivory tower occasionally and see what being dependent on proprietary software with no source is like.
You really have no idea what you're talking about do you. Yes all the world's major IT systems are running on HTML and JS and everyone working in corporate IT has no training or experience. Way to dismiss a whole industry. Where do you work that's so massively exciting?
Since when is that new? Humans have been screwing each other over since forever.
Even if we did live in RMS' world programmers would still get paid because most programmers don't work for software companies. The difference would be that any software provided by third-parties would have all the source available and, having worked on some really shit third-party products without the benefit of source, I know just how important that is. You, on the other hand, must love such helpful error messages as "An unknown error has occurred" when you've got a tight deadline to meet.
Hardly anyone gave a shit about Apple when I joined. A tribute to their recent success I guess. Now get off my lawn newbie!
So no one will pay you to write software? You must be really shit.
No it means that the risk is massively overblown - surprise surprise.
Look what came up in the search. From the link:
Things really went downhill when Oracle took it over.
You forget that most web stuff is in-house apps where that sort of architecture is massive overkill. In any case there's no reason whatsover that you couldn't do that on ASP.NET.