You know, five years ago I thought Flash was going to eat HTML too. I haven't used it in two years so my opinion/facts MIGHT be out date.
But it basically seems to suffer from the same industry wide tendancy to bolt extra functionality onto a shakey early infrastructure unsuited to the final purpose, rather than recreating a valid workable solution from the ground up.
Tell me why in Flash, the outline of a polygon can detach from the fill, unlike all industry standard bezier objects where outline and fill are intrinsic properties of the polygon. This weirdness is built in from the core due to Flash having such a mixed and mottled parentage, and now we are stuck with it.
They didn't design Flash as a GUI platform and programming environment. When they conceived it, seems they had banner ads in mind!
This kind of tragic inertia is an inevitable result of the network effect and the need for backward compatibility. We need either some really clever cross platform abstraction layer technology, which AJAX is not, or better yet some total replacement technology not yet seen to truly let the web grow to full maturity.
And someone pretty damn clever is going to have to have the vision to set it up right right from the start, or it'll just be a repeat performance.
Absolutely agree. Only people who have never used javascript and DHTML would even dream such madness. Or possibly fanatical Javascript zealots, if they exist in some cave somewhere. This is too painful to even begin thinking about.
Perhaps a Web OS might have worked if the conceptual infrastructure had been put in place for it at the beginning, but instead we now have a crippled monster that has been built up by feature accretion and bastardization, all dictated by a heady mixture of spineless toady bureaucrats and greedy corporate raiders.
We need a disruptive technology to fix this mess now, I'm afraid. We are not going to get there by evolution.
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I for one welcome our new religious overlords, the Physicists...
I can suggest three books... But you've got to be able to read them all at the same time ;-)
No, if God had designed HTML it would have been Intelligently Designed...
So HTML is clearly a creation of the Flying Spaghetti Code Monster.
You know, five years ago I thought Flash was going to eat HTML too. I haven't used it in two years so my opinion/facts MIGHT be out date.
But it basically seems to suffer from the same industry wide tendancy to bolt extra functionality onto a shakey early infrastructure unsuited to the final purpose, rather than recreating a valid workable solution from the ground up.
Tell me why in Flash, the outline of a polygon can detach from the fill, unlike all industry standard bezier objects where outline and fill are intrinsic properties of the polygon. This weirdness is built in from the core due to Flash having such a mixed and mottled parentage, and now we are stuck with it.
They didn't design Flash as a GUI platform and programming environment. When they conceived it, seems they had banner ads in mind!
This kind of tragic inertia is an inevitable result of the network effect and the need for backward compatibility. We need either some really clever cross platform abstraction layer technology, which AJAX is not, or better yet some total replacement technology not yet seen to truly let the web grow to full maturity.
And someone pretty damn clever is going to have to have the vision to set it up right right from the start, or it'll just be a repeat performance.
Absolutely agree. Only people who have never used javascript and DHTML would even dream such madness. Or possibly fanatical Javascript zealots, if they exist in some cave somewhere. This is too painful to even begin thinking about. Perhaps a Web OS might have worked if the conceptual infrastructure had been put in place for it at the beginning, but instead we now have a crippled monster that has been built up by feature accretion and bastardization, all dictated by a heady mixture of spineless toady bureaucrats and greedy corporate raiders. We need a disruptive technology to fix this mess now, I'm afraid. We are not going to get there by evolution.
Love in the Space Elevator, getting it up while I'm going down....