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I know this is rough on a lot of developers but I had to chuckle. I just LAST NIGHT decided to stop trying to write web-based stuff as I really don't care for it and don't have any call for it. (Let the "kids" do it). I find HTML in general to be a real kludge when it comes to the front-end for software. It takes 3 times (if not more) effort to do EVERYTHING. (I have tried to sell myself on it it for about 13 years so it's not like I haven't tried). I write desktop apps that handle databases. My clients are small, they don't care for all their data to live out on the web anyway.
I'd much rather focus on getting my clients their problems solved than spending 70-80% of my development time maintaining all the stuff associated with trying to target all these web browsers and their kludgy implementation. Yuck.
Yes, there is a lot of really slick stuff being done on the web (and I use it ) but I've been at this for 37 years and I keep seeing developers get jerked around by stuff like this. The hell with that. I'll just spend the rest of my career writing stuff that no one else can "lower" themselves to do anymore. (and have a life) I make six-figures doing that. Just breaks my heart that Google is jerking everybody around. 
modified 26-Sep-13 6:37am.
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Okay, but now I'm wondering - what's the difference between having a webpage just boot an offline program via a "a href" link? Skype does that if you go skype:someuserid in a href attribute iirc. And the fact that chrome is using chrome:// is kinda the point, too. Arguably, you wouldn't even need to make a custom URL prefix like that, if you forced a certain path and just did file:///... but no one sane likes forcing paths.
As a second suggestion - I know there's a lot of libraries for making webpages possible, but if people want "webapps", why doesn't someone just simply write something that can convert how a browser presents a webpage to the plugins, so the different browsers have multiplatform plugins?
I actually use the IE Tab for Chrome extension. I'm not wasting half a minute waiting for IE to start up, and the ActiveX is a good amount faster. (and does better on the Acid3 test too)
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MehGerbil wrote: I want to program using tools by a company that isn't afraid to win.
Microsoft is not afraid of win, but every time it does it, it gets a nice letter from an antitrust regulator.
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It was crazy enough to create Australia. This is nothing!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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The lava people are going to build a base there!
They'll enslave us all!
*ahem*
I, for one, welcome our molten masters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The lava people
As it's not the java people, I don't worry to much...
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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The lava people use {} and () but they use them the opposite way.
Also, a pair of lowercase t's is how they comment.
private void TakeOverWorld)(
}
tt: do stuff here
{
I would have thought this new programming standard wouldn't have a chance but some European based commission has decided that it is a good idea and there is talk that Microsoft is considering dropping several successful lines of business in order to embrace it.
Me?
I'm studying to be a short order cook because I'm tired of the insanity.
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That's tiny
It's nowhere near big enough for a half-decent Secret Volcano Base...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's tiny
Next week they will come out with another story that will start using a new classification for islands, a "dwarf island".
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It's about the same size as Leshp and you know how that ended up...
speramus in juniperus
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Check it for weathercocks, that's what I say!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Will do c**k!
speramus in juniperus
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Mmm, burritos[^]...
[ASIDE - post the link with the trailing slash and the hamsters go FUBAR]
speramus in juniperus
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In the soccer (football) match between Aston Villa and Tottenham, the defender Jan Vertonghen decided that this[^] was a good way to tackle Aston Villas striker Nicklas Helenius  ...
Apperantly the referee didnt think this was an illegal move, so now you can teach you kids some new way of stopping an attack... 
Although I laughed pretty hard, this seems to be a penalty...
modified 25-Sep-13 11:12am.
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What do we care what foreigners do on the football field?
You should watch watch British teams, like Villa and Spurs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You dont seem to care if danish players are without shorts 
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From the experiences I have had with Danish Girls, they spend a lot of time not wearing shorts, or indeed much else!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Watching Videos of Nordic Girls != experiences I have had with Danish Girls
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I had a remarkable time with a Danish Girl.
It was all over in a month, but what a month!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Handcuffed and Gagged on the 1st of the month.
Released on the last day of the month.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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He's a tory. That's tory Heaven.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That might be true, but do you think Jan Vertonghen had a flashback?
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: You dont seem to care if danish players are without shorts
Nor, indeed, if they are with.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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He shouldn't be watching Brummagam teams anyway, far too close to being from t'North.
Much better to watch Palace, The Irons, Orient or, Best of All Charlton.
Proper football played by yer actual London Clubs.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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