[OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 08:38:57 PDT 2011


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I know IE gets flamed for not
> following the standards, and perhaps rightly so, but sometimes the
> IE-classic-way just makes the standards-way look like shit.

Yup. I always put some slightly inflammatory line in my signature
over there (and my avatar is usually ironic in some way).

I think the whole web standards thing is a pile of nonsense. Well,
it's good to have, but the attitude behind them, especially toward
IE, is just ridiculous.

Virtually everything "web 2.0" is built on was invented by IE -
hence the signature line. There's some new standards fixing
the old standard... by making it act like old IE. (box-sizing
in CSS is the big one.)

But, noooo, IE is evil.

If there's something IE started that they don't like, it's
OH NOES PROPRIETARY EVILNESS... but if Google does the same thing,
it's STILL IE's fault for not instantly cloning Google's
proprietary crap!

Unbelievable.

And, that brings me to something else. I hate the way the browsers
are so focused on poorly running DOOM in Javascript, but they
all ignore basic usability issues. Take one that got me recently:
file uploads don't give feedback.

How hard would it be for the browser to put in some kind of
progress bar over the form or something instead of just hanging
for a few minutes?

But noooo, we need WebGL.

Oh, I could rant about this all day, better not get too far
off topic again!


> If you ask me, SQL is the COBOL/VB of the DB world, except it
> actually stuck.

I don't know, it seems OK enough for the database, though it has
issues I hate (hence my recent database.d module). But reinventing
it is so weird.

Facebook did it too, but they at least had the good sense of
ditching their FQL for the most part in favor of the new graph
api, which is far more traditional in form.... and far easier
to use.


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