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Comment by ifwinterco

21 hours ago

Blindly running client side code (within a very carefully designed sandbox) is necessary for the modern web to operate, and people like the modern web.

We aren't going back to a page refresh every time you want to update something any time soon

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__MatrixMan__  19 hours ago

Are you sure people like the modern web? It's increasingly used as a weapon against them. I don't know anybody under 20 who likes the modern web. As for the others, I think its more about nostalgia.

  • no-name-here  9 hours ago

    > Are you sure people like the modern web?

    People will often claim to dislike something, even though they would dislike the alternative even more (and they might even be actively choosing against the alternative). Pay more attention to what people’s actions reveal than what they claim.

    (This happens not just in tech.)

  • icedchai  15 hours ago

    The tech that made the old web still exists. Everything is a GET, a form POST, and needs a page reload. You can still use tables for layout like it's 1996.

    • __MatrixMan__  13 hours ago

      1. I'm not proposing the users go back and live in the past. I'm proposing that we, the technologists, go back to the drawing board as it existed at that time and build a different future.

      2. I'm not going to feel safe if I go make a web site that works that way. I'm going to feel safe if my bank does.