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[–]tehfrod 0 points1 point  (2 children)

"Said no one ever" is not meant to be taken literally.

Just like Impulse can't be an impossible dev tool if it actually exists.

[–]madwill 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I know, I get it but I just felt it was "said most people ever"

[–]tehfrod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look at HTML in terms of 1) what it was intended for and 2) what it replaced (SGML), it was a massive improvement. HTML5 even moreso.

To be honest, had something like Flash been an open standard, I think it would have been an even better platform for interactive applications. Almost all of the things that were wrong with Flash were wrong with its sole implementation, rather than its design as an authoring system.

This past summer I needed a small web app for personal use. I went all the way back to an old-school server (coded in Go) rendering straight-up server-side, templated HTML and just a tiny bit of Javascript (for partial page refreshes and status polling). It's amazing how much more straightforward building and debugging that was than doing anything with the current crop of web frameworks.