Content Management : A Case Study (Of Sorts) — Dorian Taylor
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if you’re gonna make a Web interface for manipulating data of some kind, why not make it operate over some structure for which there isn’t already an extraordinarily mature desktop tool that does exactly the same job?
If you’re going to make a Web-based interface for a task like entering text, consider it remedial. I don’t care how snazzy HTML5 is. Whoever uses that functionality is almost certainly trying to do their job on their phone from down at the bar or something. And, if you insist on making one, for goodness sake fix the back button. I once saw a guy put his fist through a wall after clipping that and losing the magnum opus he had spent the previous hour naïvely hunting-and-pecking into his browser.