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0 pointsspion11y ago0 comments

But the web isn't hard because its distributed. Its mostly because HTML and CSS were not designed for making applications.

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gaius11y ago

Exactly. If Microsoft had written Outlook in VBA as a plugin for Word, they'd have been laughed out of the room. But that's exactly what Google did with Gmail...

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0 pointsspion11y ago0 comments

But the web isn't hard because its distributed. Its mostly because HTML and CSS were not designed for making applications.

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gaius11y ago

Exactly. If Microsoft had written Outlook in VBA as a plugin for Word, they'd have been laughed out of the room. But that's exactly what Google did with Gmail...

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