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Here's the fact: The web is a computing paradigm that was not designed for mobile.
by comedian 15y ago
Here's the fact: The web is a computing paradigm that was not designed for mobile.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoA mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
- comedian 15y agono it was not. hence the need for "mobile" versions of websites and various hacks to make the web work on mobile devices.
- Groxx 15y agoHow does that follow? That's saying that the mobile clients don't implement everything, not that http isn't agnostic.
- bphogan 15y agothat's not the web's fault... that's the fault of most developers doing the web wrong, refusing to separate content from presentation. If mobile users only need service-type apps, the web can provide that. Programmers just have to write the screens. The Web is a dumb terminal. You fill in a form, press XMIT or the equivalent, and get the next screen. Just because someone decided that the content needs to be jammed in a 900px table cell doesn't mean the web can't do mobile too.
- comedian 15y ago"When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" The web is just another computing paradigm with its own strengths and weaknesses. It's not the be all and end all of mobile.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoSo? The web was not designed for video. It wasn't designed for dynamic interactivity either or applications at all, actually. Yet here we are.