The point is that all this bullshit can live in USERLAND. Whether the browser comes with some prepackaged defaults is irrelevant. The browser as it stands is a horrible mishmash of application and platform. It should be…
Easy: provide an API for specifying text selection. Provide an API for sending things to the clipboard. You know, like every other programming platform does. It's probably about time I stopped getting irritated at how…
Rubbish. "Leveling" done in userspace (e.g. libraries) doesn't create a fundamental step back. The browser is just a horribly designed, and why, in spite of years of procrastination and denial - and HN is no exception -…
I don't disagree with your comment except to say that sandboxed, client-side programming - done correctly - isn't a bad idea. But "good enough", whether you or I like it or not, is what we are going to get. I'm not…
Yes and no. The choices are: (a) build a dumb terminal, or (b) build a platform for distributed applications. Currently, we have a dumb terminal with some programming features bolted onto the side. All kinds of concerns…
Snarky tone aside, care to explain what is inaccurate or unhelpful in this comment? There is a lesson to be learned from the debacle of browser design about ignoring what worked in the past. Does anyone seriously…
Well, it's good to see that the browser developers have finally conceded total defeat on Javascript as the basis for their platform, and are now simply constructing a nice little low-level virtual machine for general…
The point is that all this bullshit can live in USERLAND. Whether the browser comes with some prepackaged defaults is irrelevant. The browser as it stands is a horrible mishmash of application and platform. It should be…
Easy: provide an API for specifying text selection. Provide an API for sending things to the clipboard. You know, like every other programming platform does. It's probably about time I stopped getting irritated at how…
Rubbish. "Leveling" done in userspace (e.g. libraries) doesn't create a fundamental step back. The browser is just a horribly designed, and why, in spite of years of procrastination and denial - and HN is no exception -…
I don't disagree with your comment except to say that sandboxed, client-side programming - done correctly - isn't a bad idea. But "good enough", whether you or I like it or not, is what we are going to get. I'm not…
Yes and no. The choices are: (a) build a dumb terminal, or (b) build a platform for distributed applications. Currently, we have a dumb terminal with some programming features bolted onto the side. All kinds of concerns…
Snarky tone aside, care to explain what is inaccurate or unhelpful in this comment? There is a lesson to be learned from the debacle of browser design about ignoring what worked in the past. Does anyone seriously…
Well, it's good to see that the browser developers have finally conceded total defeat on Javascript as the basis for their platform, and are now simply constructing a nice little low-level virtual machine for general…