you can build using the HTTP protocol that I'm sick of - web
services, forms, buttons, integrity checks. Oh, and Javascript is, in
fact, my least favourite platform. I find it unreliable, with
compatibility problems between platforms, and it's generally being
used in order to force HTML to do things it is not supposed to do.
Eventually you may have nice interfaces, but they are interfaces into
nothing. If there is anything interesting to be done on the backend, it's
I would disagree here. I think what is happening in this area is the
return of HTML to what it meant to be, only better. The applications are
moving towards the old MVC paradigm, where HTML moves back towards the
Model (though you can use other model data source, like JSON or XML
sources), CSS takes over much of the View and Javascript makes
Controller. There's still some uncleanness (especially that data and GUI
are still mixed) and some growing pains but I think it's where the
things are heading to, and it's a healthy direction. As a result,
nowdays HTMLs become more clean - as CSS/JS begin to allow to do what
they were meant to do from the start - provide presentation layer over
the independent content layer.
The truth is that all web applications are just sugar coated
information systems, and nowadays, with Ajax, they are really no
different than the client-server applications people used to write
back in the late '80s and early '90s.
Yes and no. Yes because it's not that there's new computer science being
born or something :), no - because things are being done that weren't
done before, because now it's easier for people to do them. As an
example, let's look at one of the tons of google maps mashups - which
*are* very useful if google maps covers the area you are interested in -
too bad Israel isn't covered :( - and see how something like that was
done in 80s. The answer is - it wasn't done. Such applications just
didn't exist.
Of course, there's a ton of boring stuff and needless bells and whistles
there too - can't be helped, that's Sturgeon's Second Law at work. But
there's some cool stuff too.
But then again, if you don't feel interested in it - definitely don't do
it. There's always a ton of other things to do :)
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