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0 pointsPaulHoule21h ago0 comments

Can't say I hate the HTML 5 spec. It resolves the ambiguities that made previous HTML specs insufficient to make a working web browser.

The standards that make my life miserable at times are the secondary standards like GDPR and WCAG as well as the de facto "standard" systems we are forced to participate in such as Cloudflare, the advertising economy, etc.

It's easy to say "WebUSB is bloat" and I'd certainly say PWA is something that could only come out of the mind that brought us Kubernetes, but lately I've been building biosignals applications and what should my choice be: write fragile GUI applications for the desktop that look like they came out of a lab and crash from memory leaks or spend 1/5 the time to make web applications that look like they belong in the cockpit of a Gundam and "just work"?

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torgoguys20h ago

>I'd certainly say PWA is something that could only come out of the mind that brought us Kubernetes

How so? PWAs are awesome! Democratizing for users. Democratizing for developers. They work well for the right class of apps. They would go much further if there weren't forces actively resisting them. Think of all the electron type-apps out there. Now imagine if the average Joe could just install them from the web with 2 clicks.

(Regular ole bookmarks get you a decent percent of the way but clearly something extra than that was needed.)

doublerabbit15h ago

PWAs are it. They would go well with a PDAs but the existing frameworks are terrible. Next, React powering the future internet, don't make me laugh.

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