- Recently I’ve been having serious doubts about the whole push the web forward thing. Why should we push the web forward? And forward to what, exactly? Do we want the web to be at whatever we push it forward to? You never hear those questions.
Pushing the web forward currently means cramming in more copies of native functionality at breakneck speed — interesting stuff, mind you, but there’s just too much of it.
I agree. We should stop pushing the web forwards, and start pulling it upwards. Focus on making a browser, not a do-it-all multimedia experience (right now, Chrome feels like it wants to be an OS over an OS, really. Firefox is okay, if not a bit sluggish - but then again I haven't used it in a while. Safari is laughable I believe, and Opera is halfway between Chrome and Firefox - all of the messy polyvalence of Chrome with the bulk of Firefox). I mean - to me, the pinnacle of web browsing was in the few months after the release of Firefox 20.0 I think (could have the version wrong). That Firefox version was simple, fast, and in the following months had plenty of add-ons (that's another viewpoint that I like from Firefox - addons add to the browsing experience and browser functionality, extensions extend the browser - building tall VS building wide) to make a browsing experience exactly like you want it.