> Hyperlink traversal matters. The Internet being global and decentralized matters. HTML does not matter.
He gets it.
I think a lot of people misinterpreted his previous blog post as saying that the web is worse as a platform than iOS. No, he's saying that HTML is worse as an API than the iOS frameworks. The two are different, and the difference is crucial.
The web is Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, blogs, and HN --- services that couldn't exist without the concept of the hyperlink. That we currently write web pages in HTML, CSS, JS, and related technologies isn't central to this, and that is what Hewitt doesn't like about the web.
He's not calling for us to stop writing web apps. He's calling us to put some serious thinking into a better markup, presentation, and application language. Now that we have decades experience in writing HTML, we might actually we qualified to do so.
I agree with one nitpick. The web is Wikipedia, Google, Facebbok, blogs, HN, and everything because of of the concept of the hyperlink. It couldn't exist without the hyperlink. That everything is written in HTML, CSS, JS, and other related technologies doesn't mater. The hyperlink does, regardless of how it is implemented.
He gets it.
I think a lot of people misinterpreted his previous blog post as saying that the web is worse as a platform than iOS. No, he's saying that HTML is worse as an API than the iOS frameworks. The two are different, and the difference is crucial.
The web is Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, blogs, and HN --- services that couldn't exist without the concept of the hyperlink. That we currently write web pages in HTML, CSS, JS, and related technologies isn't central to this, and that is what Hewitt doesn't like about the web.
He's not calling for us to stop writing web apps. He's calling us to put some serious thinking into a better markup, presentation, and application language. Now that we have decades experience in writing HTML, we might actually we qualified to do so.