Search for “graceful degradation” and “progressive enhancement” to learn more about considerations and strategies. If you’re committed to a perfectly atomic app you’ll have to look in other places though. The magic of the web is its deep, if sloppy and choppy, interoperability. Web pages from the early 90s load fine on Chrome or a PSP. Many, though obviously not all, web pages from this year would load “ok” on Mosaic or Navigator.

What you gain from committing to iOS or something, you lose by committing to iOS. :P A unified app has to be specially built/compiled for every platform, sometimes in proprietary languages, and sometimes recompiled for every platform upgrade, firmware change, etc. A Perl/JS app can be run with just a little forethought on nearly limitless combinations of platforms, agents, and their manifold versions and is somewhat future proof by default just because of the nature of the web.

In reply to Re^5: Are there any issues with JSON by Your Mother
in thread Are there any issues with JSON by taint

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