> What the author is complaining about is that it’s impossible to make a text document that pretends to be an application that stores data in ways they were never intended to be stored.
You must've been not following things. The web platform is an application platform and has developed to that end, for many years.
Progressive Web Apps are applications based on standard Web APIs that are designed with the intent to enable offline-capable applications with persistent offline storage of significant amounts of data.
> The web platform is an application platform and has developed to that end, for many years.
No it’s not. Using it like that is a lasagna of dirty hacks. The web is for structured text with hyperlinks, everything else is bullshit that doesn’t belong on the web.
> No it’s not. Using it like that is a lasagna of dirty hacks.
First it's a bunch of dirty hacks. Then it's an informal convention. Then it's a standard. Lots of technology evolved that way.
All the stakeholders driving the web standards forward are focusing on making it a more powerful application platform.
> The web is for structured text with hyperlinks, everything else is bullshit that doesn’t belong on the web.
That's your personal opinion on what the web platform should be, not what it is. Of course it's a crappy platform in many respects. Of course a lot of people don't like the way it goes. It doesn't matter.
You must've been not following things. The web platform is an application platform and has developed to that end, for many years.
Progressive Web Apps are applications based on standard Web APIs that are designed with the intent to enable offline-capable applications with persistent offline storage of significant amounts of data.