Comment by kragen
2 years ago
it's possible that the people i was talking to meant that, but i took them to mean something much stronger, that there are things that were easy and fluent in vb6 that are clumsy in dhtml. and i'd like to know what those things were, but text is not a good medium for that
christine lavin wrote a song about your interpretation https://mojim.com/usy144575x1x8.htm in which she says
The reality of me
cannot compete
with the dreams you have of her.
And the love you've given me
is not as sweet
as the feelings that she stirs.
And so you turn away
and you say that you're sorry,
But you must pursue this dream,
this improbable dream.
Though things have not been bad,
you can't say you've had
Quite as good a time as it first seemed.
some software that could have been written is always better than all software that has actually been written
The conversation often goes like this.
creating UI's in VB6 was so much faster and easier than html+css
yeah, but they're not reactive to resolution changes.
me: but they could have been updated rather than throwing them away and going with the complexity of today's solution.
the person i was talking to seemed to be saying the opposite: that vb6 uis adapted better to window size changes than html. i'd like to understand what they meant
css has gotten pretty complex, but html isn't inherently complex