Comment by scaryclam
9 years ago
A lot of the time web apps aren't even portable across different browsers...so...YMMV in regards to the whole portability thing.
9 years ago
A lot of the time web apps aren't even portable across different browsers...so...YMMV in regards to the whole portability thing.
> A lot of the time
That was the case in the 90s, and hasn't been the case since. "Some times, that are so rare that people point to it and comment on it on forums", yes.
It's a day to day occurrence, within Web development teams who have different preferences in browser. I've witnessed it in multi companies over the last decade. If you've not noticed it, then it's highly likely you're not testing outside of a single browser. The fact that you think this is a 90s issue shows that you're either extremely junior and arrogant, or totally out of touch with modern Web development. Either that or in denial. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if nobody says it too you then you're going to continue on in a sorry little bubble of ignorance.
If you're talking of the need to use polyfills, and test in multiple versions of multiple browsers before pushing to production, I think it's incomparable to having to write multiple native apps.
If you're talking about fonts rendering differently, or some line being some pixels further to the right, same thing; incomparable.
If you're talking about corporate web apps written for IE, those aren't accessible from a phone anyway, so the distinction between native and web app is meaningless for them.
If, instead, you're talking of websites that really don't work on a modern browser, and you stumble on them day to day, you just have an experience that's different from most other people. The easiest way to tell that what I'm telling you isn't just my individual experience is to compare what you see and read today from what used to be the case in the days of IE domination.
Acting like a dick that thinks people that disagree with you are in a sorry little bubble of ignorance is just a character flaw; nothing to do with this.
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