Those of us who have been around for a while look at what Google are doing with ...

dasil003 · on March 18, 2012

It just goes to show that market forces do not care about technical merit and ultimate purpose in the least. NeWS never got traction, yet the advance of the web is inexorable. Why?

Well the web is supported everywhere because it was simple. The fact that it is available everywhere (which is actually pretty amazing and unique in the entire history of media if you stop and think about it) meant people kept pushing the boundaries. The limitations caused standards to be pushed forward. Wide use of the standards means no platform can break free from supporting it (Microsoft did their best for almost a decade!).

Obviously it looks like a Frankenstein monster from an engineering perspective, but it doesn't matter because that's where the investment is going. The good news is it will evolve and improve, and soon enough the grey beards who remember that there could have been a better way will all be dead; a lot like UNIX actually ;)

edit: I'd appreciate if bitter GUI developers would respond rather than misdirect their anger at the down vote button.

unimpressive · on March 18, 2012

Well. You're getting downvoted for wishing death on people you've never met.

>The good news is it will evolve and improve, and soon enough the grey beards who remember that there could have been a better way will all be dead; a lot like UNIX actually ;)

That sounds like some sort of evil plot. For that matter my beard isn't anywhere close to being gray and I know that things could have been better. And if you didn't have +8000 karma I would think you were trolling.

That you're not just makes it worse.

dasil003 · on March 19, 2012

Who's wishing death on anyone? It's just a colorful way of saying that people will soon enough take the web heritage of apps for granted.

unimpressive · on March 19, 2012

>The good news is...soon enough the grey beards...will all be dead... ;)

You're the one who asked. If thats what I got out of it it's probably what the people downvoting got out of it too.

For what it's worth maybe the intended message would have come through better if you were saying it in your voice with tone and inflection rather than the way I read it as words on the screen.