[6] Don't get me wrong, HTTP/2 and WebAssembly will eventually transform how we do web development, but it'll take 5-10 years.
that's simply not true. web users vote with their feet, and this has driven a shift to more interactive pages and apps
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Users feet are voting for actual apps. Companies' web pages imitate their apps for production and consistency reasons.
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that isn't quite right. actual apps take minutes and cause total abandonment in the real worldhttps://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/07/google-case-study-on-app-download-interstitials.html …
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I know part of the story is devs optimizing for mobile and that you, in particular, have done a ton of yeoman's work on that
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I just think in the process we've lost a lot of the virtues of the web as a document platform in a way that hurts users.
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I think people who believe that should be touting Ember's URL-first approach far more. Instead, the opposite.
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This is a conversation for beers. But part of the issue is how high we've raised the complexity of authoring on the web.
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complexity can be managed by sealing up abstractions. Even jQuery reduced complexity, and leaked plenty.
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I like to think of enabling power rather than some platonic idea of "complexity". FrontPage > DreamWeaver.
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Twitter renders blank on my phone 1 in 5 times. The back button works on neither Twitter nor Facebook. Users want this?
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Twitter abandoned "app"y solutions years ago (allegedly for this reason!) http://www.techspot.com/news/48795-how-twitter-is-improving-performance-site-wide.html …
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