alt Hacker NewsThe truth is that the web is a shit GUI framework. It's slow, clunky, incredibly resource intensive, hard to make uniform, verbose to code. It's terrible.
The way the whole industry adopted it is understandable given the install base, but it's also probably a trillion dollar tax. I'd hate to see how much additional energy is used by billions of end-user devices running a rendering layer that is 100X heavier and more CPU intensive than anything native or TUI.
Replies
eh, I don't agree with this. More like American corporations have degraded the free web to a point where nothing hasn't really improved for the last two decades.
There should be public browsers and public search engines. The private incentives are too much and software built for public needs can be extremely cheaper than their private counterparts once you remove the need to support advertising services.
Not if you just stick to the basic built-in 30-year-old HTML GUI elements (<button>, <select>, <legend>, <form>, <input>, <table> for layout, etc., maybe also some modern standards like flexboxes) which are very fast, lightweight, east to code, and uniform. The problem to me is every website tries to do some custom javascript monstrosity with their own graphics to keep up with the latest fad. When just sticking to the basics, I find the web is a great cross-platform GUI framework.