...this is not a change any of the web's users asked for. Some devs want it for their own convenience. This is why change is slow.
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Replying to @atduskgreg @mikeal
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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Replying to @atduskgreg @mikeal
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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Replying to @atduskgreg @mikeal
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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Replying to @atduskgreg @mikeal
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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jQuery > Dojo. According to some complexity theories that is laughable. But in terms of enabling, no contests.
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