Re: [dev] [st] windows port?

From: Max DeLiso <maxdeliso_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:58:49 -0400

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, <sl_AT_9front.org> wrote:
>> The web is the future of computing, that much is evident.
>
> The web is not even the present of computing. Most humans
> access the Internet using custom clients ("apps") on mobile
> devices.

Really depends how you define web doesn't it? If by web you're
referring specifically to HTTP, which the majority of those custom
clients are using to transmit data, then yes, the web is the present
of computing.

Even if you define it more generally as programming with some kind of
network interaction involved, it's still the present of computing.

In fact the only definitions of web that it fails this test is the
very narrow definition which refers only to HTML being loaded into a
browser. (And though facebook has shown that this approach on mobile
is still not really viable yet, it is still being worked on). Look at
firefoxOS. No consensus has really emerged yet on this, though it
seems to be the direction many are headed.
Received on Thu Apr 11 2013 - 18:58:49 CEST