should html do everything? or should javascript exist?
dont get me started about how poorly thought out all these internet techs are.
these techs all evolved in there own way, and where all smashed to together to give us the internet we have today
html5 is trying hard to consolidate the horrific mess that was created
I worked as a web dev, trust me its a hell of a mess out there
JS php flash etc its all crap!
whats really amazing is that it works! unless you use IE then your shit out of luck.
I think that was an attempt at metaphorical profundity adam, or maybe the chicken bones fell funny for me. A better metaphor in my mind would be the transportation system of a major city.
You have highways, and you have busses that (more efficiently) use that highway.
It's unlikely, but say the roads are toll roads, operated by a group of companies. The busses are also private, but run by one company, however, they are willing to freely offer the basis of their model to other companies.
Here's where it gets really weird. The bus company are also the civil engineers for the road system. The toll road company builds and maintains them, but the bus company draws up the plans.
Bus company just finished a meeting with the toll road operators, and convinced them that 1 lane (each way) highway is the solution, for now, and maybe in 18 months... 2.5 (motorcycles?) lanes will be acceptable to the ecological health of the area around the current 1 lane highway.
The whole thing somewhat breaks down when competing road systems and transport systems enter the fray without the same barriers of the physical world (see adam's ether).… Even without them, we've already tangled ourselves in a whole nest of crossed incentives and pitfalls…
Something tells me the toll road operators will wake up eventually, but timing is everything, and they risk a competing operator eating their lunch as tolls rise, traffic waits go up, and people flee to other systems.
@bargainbin
next thing you know they'll be mining classic blocks with reckless abandon
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