I believe, the website moderator's role is to filter out such "comments" as the one submitted by D.Diggerman.
I am absolutely agree with the author of the article, especially in the part concerning the nightmare of client-side development for different browsers with unpredictable behaviour. From the more general point of view, software development is always restricted by a paradigm, which very soon becomes a dogma. The material about new alternativ approaches is really useful.

Channing Benson's rave is based on the adjective filled junk written in the paragraph "To be honest, most...". Yes the web is full of rubbish of which the article is part of. "multiple divergent programming languages and frameworks... " what the frig is that! "Developers suffer because Web-based architectures divide an application along illogical boundaries which complicate the creation of a seamless user experience..". Whose suffering the user or developer? "Seamless"?

Please be a good cyber citizen and refrain from clogging up disk storage with rubbish.

D Diggerman

|| Criticizing something as wildly successful as the World Wide Web seems a bit radical and potentially unpopular. ||

Understatement of the century!

> I hope you at least grant that the average user of Web
> applications won't ever rave about the Web user interface
> the way someone might that of a conventionally programmed
> application like iTunes or Photoshop.

The author is assuming that the usability and state persistence issues of web applications will not be fixed and improved upon. The growing popularity of Ajax and standardized portlets are proving this to be a false assumption.