html5iscancer

Please at least reply if you down vote. I would like to know what I'm mistaken about.

Why down vote? Web babies seem to get very upset when the abject technological failure of the browser is pointed out to them. It has failed comprehensively:

1) security 2) computational performance 3) flexibility

WebSockets for example are just a bad rehash of existing APIs. Woopty-doo.

Zero-install is not difficult. In fact, it was around decades ago. Then people destroyed that with complex operating systems requiring loads of configuration. Even with the stupidity of modern operating systems we could recover zero-install with simple virtual machines (or any number of other mechanisms).

Web links are cool. Just about the only redeeming feature of the web. They have absolutely no connection to JavaScript, HTML5 or any of the other hideous complexity you see in the browser.

Browsers are not "zero friction" upgrading. Behaviour changes from version to version. Using Firefox on Linux I have experienced continued breakages. Again, if you had a simple virtual machine it would be simple to port anywhere, and you wouldn't need constant bug fixes.

Your last point has nothing to do with technology. It is simply the result of vendors successfully selling the technology to people. By doing so they've locked other better approaches out of the market due to network effects.

The remainder of your post is the good old "it'll be good enough" attitude. Except it won't ever be as good as it was because people are reliant on benchmarks that make "freight train" style systems look "fast" for through-put code.

Sockets are not a new technology. Wrapping sockets in a bunch of overhead and taking away UDP isn't new technology. No smooth scrolling on a PC with a graphics card an inch thick strikes me as a very poor job. But it will be hailed as a "step forwward" because it's in the browser space (which has no standards).

Not trying to bully you, but what part of this is impressive? There doesn't seem to be anything here that wasn't done better decades ago. Why does everything become impressive once it appears in the browser?

Please, stop doing things like this. You people are destroying programming! Why does everything have to be so complicated? Because people keep fucking everything up with stupidity, that's why!

The scrolling was jerky for me on my newish desktop PC. There doesn't seem to be any new "technology" here, just some slow wrappers around stuff that was around years ago. If this is being touted as "the future" then programming is really going down the toilet.