Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 66.30.118.74]
on May 13, 2008 09:21 PM
I agree. The current situation is one of stagnation, in part due to Microsoft, and in part due to the fact that HTML has been pushed way farther than it was ever meant to go. It is utterly painful coding javascript and CSS to make UI components, let alone cross browser. Sure, you have YUI, jQuery, and the like, all very fine pieces of work, but you still end up writing a lot of crap on top of these ( in YUI's case ) large libraries.
The market today obviously demands something better. Video, Audio, better state management when required, real UI tools, etc. All things we've had for years on the desktop. And because the platform of browsers has moved so slowly ( thanks again MS! ), others have stepped in. Flash is the main example here. Now we have Silverlight too.
Like it or not, the luddites posting here need to face the future. If an open alternative is not developed quickly, we will end up with Adobe and MS controlling the medium. It has indeed already happened to a large extent. Again this is because people are demanding a far better experience than what a bunch of hacked scripts and wrong-tool-for-the-job HTML can deliver.
With things like Verizon FIOS, the web, television, things like http://www.perceptivepixel.com, and more are all coming and colliding. The technology as it stands was great 1998. Let's move forward, not stand around pissing and moaning about horseless carriages.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 66.30.118.74] on May 13, 2008 09:21 PMThe market today obviously demands something better. Video, Audio, better state management when required, real UI tools, etc. All things we've had for years on the desktop. And because the platform of browsers has moved so slowly ( thanks again MS! ), others have stepped in. Flash is the main example here. Now we have Silverlight too.
Like it or not, the luddites posting here need to face the future. If an open alternative is not developed quickly, we will end up with Adobe and MS controlling the medium. It has indeed already happened to a large extent. Again this is because people are demanding a far better experience than what a bunch of hacked scripts and wrong-tool-for-the-job HTML can deliver.
With things like Verizon FIOS, the web, television, things like http://www.perceptivepixel.com, and more are all coming and colliding. The technology as it stands was great 1998. Let's move forward, not stand around pissing and moaning about horseless carriages.
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