Danielle Foré
When people say “the future is web apps”, all I see is Google man-in-the-middling every app that you are renting
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If your website only works in Chrome, you have fundamentally missed the point of the web. (And you certainly don't know its history, either.)

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Show threadDanielle ForéNov 4

Make websites documents again

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Danielle Foré (@[email protected])

Maybe I’m old as fuck but I don’t want to use web apps. If you want to make an app, make an app. Make websites documents again. Web apps were a mistake

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Show threadjosh g.Nov 4
@danirabbit I literally scraped my old Wordpress-based site and just swapped in the HTML results. It's so much harder for someone to own your server via plain old HTML content.
Show threadlj·rkNov 4

@danirabbit counterpoint: that locks you in into the app vendor's ecosystem. One big reason why Android/iOS is effectively irreplaceable are the apps.

But I still agree with you. It's just... not everything needs or should require an app.

Show threadLeonickNov 4

@danirabbit Google is going to start verifying every developer who wants to so much as make an APK for personal use. For iOS you need to buy a Mac and a developer account.

My web app can be used on either platform, a Linux based phone if you want to ditch the giants, or a PC with your OS of choice if you’d prefer.

I’m no fan of websites that run entirely on JavaScript or have a hundreds of npm dependencies but web apps are awesome.

Show threadDeadly HeadshotNov 9
@danirabbit
There should be a cross-platform app system for some things, but I think HTML is the wrong basis. We need a specific markup or other language designed for this sort of thing so that people don't keep reinventing the wheel in JavaScript!
Show threadMatt PanaroNov 4
@danirabbit ok, but a native android app is basically the same deal, only via the compiler/OS rather than the browser. For all the faults/frustration of webapps, I can't see any other way out of the android/iOS duopoly (c'mon, linux-phone! c'mon! 😛)