XML (and HTML) was not designed for dynamic content. No matter how you look at it, HTML is fundamentally a markup language for describing a static document. <button> is new compared to <a>, and still the api is not perfect. That's because HTML wasn't built to be UI-oriented. It was built to be document-oriented.
In addition, the browsers had just recently introduced supports for webworker, which enables concurrent processes in the browser. Native applications have had this baked in for ages because concurrency has been a core to any UI programming.
IMHO I think all the tools and frameworks for web development to date are all just hacks around this fundamental design flaw. BUT, and a big but, frankly, I <3 the web so much because of its flaw. It's liberating (no platform-specific bureaucracy), and being a hack, attracting countless minds to work and experiment with it.
Compare it to, say, iOS development. This is what I have to say--Good luck with getting through XCode's configuration hell, if you could own a Mac at all.
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XML (and HTML) was not designed for dynamic content. No matter how you look at it, HTML is fundamentally a markup language for describing a static document.
<button>is new compared to<a>, and still the api is not perfect. That's because HTML wasn't built to be UI-oriented. It was built to be document-oriented.In addition, the browsers had just recently introduced supports for webworker, which enables concurrent processes in the browser. Native applications have had this baked in for ages because concurrency has been a core to any UI programming.
IMHO I think all the tools and frameworks for web development to date are all just hacks around this fundamental design flaw. BUT, and a big but, frankly, I <3 the web so much because of its flaw. It's liberating (no platform-specific bureaucracy), and being a hack, attracting countless minds to work and experiment with it.
Compare it to, say, iOS development. This is what I have to say--Good luck with getting through XCode's configuration hell, if you could own a Mac at all.