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AI cannot replace humans spiteful spirit (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

to make pages run faster and better.

Huh, well that's a funny way of saying "break the model of web page as document and fuck up the entire web!"

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah because documents are limiting and we want to do stuff that executables can do but with a better distribution model.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Shoulda been something more like Java Web Start.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe. But performance, availability, and security killed a number of viable options. Flash was always more ubiquitous than Java on the web but it eventually died too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

    The reason Java Web Start wasn't, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn't rely on being embedded in HTML (I'm specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW -- they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh stop it. Are you saying you don't enjoy pressing the "Back" button in your browser, but staying on the same page. Therefore breaking the page so you refresh and lose whatever the fuck you were doing? /s

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