torsdag den 30. oktober 2008

The Internet's on Shaky Ground


Lige som vi troede at det gik så godt opdager vi at græsset er grønnere på den anden side ... 
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Just as we thought we were doing well we discover that the grass IS greener on the other side ...
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The Internet is built wrong.

Well, OK, not so much “wrong” as “not the best it could be.” But for all its problems, we can’t rationalize a radical departure from the technologies that currently comprise the Internet. Why?

There’s a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better that’s been around for a good 18 years. In that time, it’s come to mean that an inferiorly designed system or piece of software may be more successful than its better-designed competitor, based on subjective or unexpected market criteria. A perfect modern example is that, while most Web applications are poor facsimiles of their desktop counterparts, they’re successful because there’s nothing to install and collaboration is a snap.

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Read more: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=708&doc_id=166793&

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