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My poor RAM... (loot.buckodr.ink)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What else works across as many platforms and screen sizes as well as the combination of HTML/CSS/JS?

Most attempts to build that just lead to a worse version of it.

I'll be the first to admit it's bloated to all hell after 25 years of people stacking crap on top of more crap, and it's perilously close to being completely controlled by Google, but it is what it is.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What else works across as many platforms and screen sizes as well as the combination of HTML/CSS/JS?

    Doom. It runs on every-fucking-thing

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Maybe I do not specify clearly what I mean.

    Why to order taxi, access bank, register a domain name do we have to have apps on all platforms and then to fix this problem we bloat the web by creating webapps. Why not just plain simple HTML website beautified with CSS instead?

    Real cross-platform apps are those written in, for example QT. Then came Android and iOS forcing everyone to use their toolkits so we started to abuse poor web.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well I'm in agreement there.

    The only reason they want everything as an app is so they can push notifications and do any tracking they can legally get away with (and some they can't but who's gonna know?)

    Dominos have locked all their deals that actually make a pizza a normal price that humans would willingly pay for a pizza behind their app. There's no reason for them to do this. Surely their business model is selling pizza? So now I go to a little family run pizza shop, pay less and get decent pizza.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yep.

    Your standard web browser has to many privacy protections for you and your data.

    Its why they want to push you to an app, that asks for WAY to many permissions to do what it needs to do. Cause it doesnt need that access to function. It needs that access to monitize you. Cause they make more off stealing your information, than they do off you being a customer, Which is why you get so many discounts for using apps.

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