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Original Post: Some painful truths about web apps
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Ted Neward reiterates some painful - but frequently ignored - truths about the browser and apps that try to live in it:
At the end of the day, we need to stop pretending that the Web browser is just an extension of the desktop, and recognize it for what it really is: the old mainframe terminal, gussied up by lots of colors, graphics, and better fonts. Treat your web apps as we did terminal-based apps 30 years ago, and you'll find your system behaves a lot better as a result.
The amusing part of this is, we started writing web apps right at the end of the era of migrating from green screen apps. Think about it - green screen apps to Client/Server to green screen with graphics. The sheer size of the money pile spent on all of that is awe inspiring...
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