I tried looking at the reviews for a monitor, and when I clicked “see more reviews” I got redirected to a page asking me to login and to provide my mobile phone number (which I didn’t do for privacy reasons).
On Instagram I was confused at everyone else mentioning Instagram stories because I only have the option of uploading pictures and videos. Then I found out that it’s something you can only do if you use Instagram on a phone… I swear I’ve came across a few sites that wouldn’t even let you sign up if you were using a PC
I only ever browse social media on a PC and that’s the way it will always be. Sometimes I can’t help but feel like desktop/computer users are becoming an afterthought. Anyone else have similar feelings? 🫠
its the trend of everything being a service. organizations dont have on-prem data centers anymore, its all web services tied to other web services.
its all about that subscription revenue, per-process nickel-and-diming and super fast development cycles.
But they already have APIs in a lot of cases, so just wire the application to the API? Why the random HTML/JavaScript trash?
By the way I’m a web application developer. I understand SaaS, infrastructure and why it’s easier to wrap it all up but I don’t care. Why do application developers tolerate this? In some cases I produced a better version of their application by just creating the wrapper myself—they can’t even make the wrapper itself clean.
Honestly, it’s just because most native UI libraries suck to use compared to HTML/CSS/JS. For all the hate modern web stacks get, it’s brain-dead simple to get something good-looking in it.
Then there’s the business aspect of “Well, if the people who make our web UI can also make our app UI, why not?”