An article about the web and it doesn't mention quintessential terms like 'link', 'network' or 'platform independence' even once.
Do you know why your 1990s app was so much 'better' than today's web apps? Because it was only supposed to run on Microsoft Windows, and a specific version of Windows at that!
The same applies to layouts. If all you have to deal with is SVGA and Windows 95 layout constraints are a piece of cake.
> Really impressive software would be embeddable inside Office documents, or extend the Explorer, or allow itself to be extended with arbitrary plugins that were unknown to the original developer.
Those were only reinventing the datatypes system introduced in AmigaOS in 1992.
> In part 2 I’ll propose a new app platform that is buildable by a small group
Yeah, because that's always worked so well in the past.
> there’s no Web IDE worth talking about
Save for Intellij IDEA / WebStorm, Visual Studio Code ...
> Because it was only supposed to run on Microsoft Windows, and a specific version of Windows at that!
I worked on an ebook editing tool in 2013 that only supported the two most recent versions of Chrome. If you have a product that is truly valuable to your customers, they will install dependencies to make it work.
Do you know why your 1990s app was so much 'better' than today's web apps? Because it was only supposed to run on Microsoft Windows, and a specific version of Windows at that!
The same applies to layouts. If all you have to deal with is SVGA and Windows 95 layout constraints are a piece of cake.
> Really impressive software would be embeddable inside Office documents, or extend the Explorer, or allow itself to be extended with arbitrary plugins that were unknown to the original developer.
Those were only reinventing the datatypes system introduced in AmigaOS in 1992.
> In part 2 I’ll propose a new app platform that is buildable by a small group
Yeah, because that's always worked so well in the past.
> there’s no Web IDE worth talking about
Save for Intellij IDEA / WebStorm, Visual Studio Code ...