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On 10/23/12 3:50 AM, André Warnier wrote: > [OT philosophical section] Apps are "cool". The whole concept > however seems to me a throwback, compared to the wonders of the > Internet and the WWW. We are going back from a WWW where any > device running any standard-respecting browser is all that is > needed to run applications hosted on any server of any vendor under > any OS and written in any programming language There /is/ the "what does your browser actually support" caveat. Witness the slew of webapps that still need to support MSIE 6. Or the fact that Microsoft can't let MSIE 6 die because so much internal IT infrastructure (at clients... not at MS) has been built around it. > [...] to a situation where this one "cool webapp" is only > available for Apple or Android or Windows-based devices. And you > have to buy every little bit of functionality separately, and > scroll through 16 screenfuls of app icons in order to find the one > you need, if you remember which icon it is. And service providers, > instead of developing a web application once for one standard > browser platform, now have to invest in creating 3 different > redundant "apps" in order to cover their cool clients lifestyle > choices. It seems strange to me that nobody seems to raise any > objection to this gigantic waste of resources. My favorite part about the whole thing: someone can take a game idea from 25 years ago -- something that could run in like 2k of memory -- and program it for iOS or Android and suddenly it's the greatest thing ever and makes the app developer a billion dollars. Sadly, I don't ever seem to be that guy. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCGzc0ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAhUwCgikif+gFaHWicyhFI6Om1bHTn mKwAoKRjxOIPCGtJHdKuTBaxEXOO6hTY =TmOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
