Comments | domesticmouse: Web applications are frauds

domesticmouse

Web applications are frauds

Feb 03, 2010 17:58

As a member of the secretive web application builder society, I am about to break ranks and point out a long held secret of our little group that many have known, but refused to admit ( Read more... )

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certifiedwaif February 3 2010, 07:12:43 UTC

And we continue to put up with this only because web applications are so incredibly useful!

domesticmouse February 3 2010, 07:47:32 UTC

They are better than what came before, yes. But, with some decent engineering we could actually have web applications that don't lose data... =)

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domesticmouse February 3 2010, 07:55:13 UTC

now i'm lost =)

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You forgot Wikis anonymous February 12 2010, 06:52:29 UTC

Hey, you forgot a huge amount of web applications out there: Wikis. At least the popular MediaWiki also got concurrent editing right, in my opinion. Wikipedia would be impractical otherwise...

Re: You forgot Wikis domesticmouse February 12 2010, 07:25:14 UTC

The only wiki that I've used that got concurrent editing correct from my point of view is Wave. That said, I haven't used MediaWiki with concurrent editing, but seeing as tho I've seen demonstrations of embedding Wave inside of MediaWiki's edit cycle, i'm a little confused.

That said, I am hopeful that Wave's OT and things like MobWrite can be spread around to make modification of shared state sane and non lossy in more web applications.