[Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 18.01.2016 11:05 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>>
>> On 01/18/2016 01:41 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>>
>>>   1. Most websites are unusable without Javascript
>>
>>
>> The HTTP protocol cripples TCT/IP disallowing the server to spontaneously
> send anything .
>>
>> So without scrip the browser is dead by design.
>>
>> -Michael (IMHO, http was the worst idea ever...)
>
> The requirements back then were different. You didn't have highly
> interactive code running in the browser like you have today and for that
> HTTP was perfect.

The nice thing of HTTP is that it is very simple: Message, response. Stop.
That alone is enough to explain its success. And in this sense, it was a
brilliant idea.

The bad idea was that HTML became the standard for remote GUI. 
HTML = HyperText Markup Language
And a web GUI is anything but text these days.

Michael.