{"id":608,"date":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/543\/"},"modified":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T22:00:00","slug":"543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/543\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Web Apps Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallent.us\/blog\/CommentView.aspx?guid=B0139540-F203-4D37-982E-35A1772A5781\" title=\"Randomize - On Browser UIs\">\u201cOn Browser UIs\u201d<\/a>, Richard S. Tallent has a comprehensive list of reasons \u201cwhy web apps suck&#8220;. On \u201cmissing widgets&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTree views: even the best ones out there suck. MSDN, for example. They also almost invariably lead to using frames to avoid population and rendering on each page refresh. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Context menus. This alone is responsible for any number of cases of over-busy interfaces in web apps. Without the right-click ability (sorry Mac users), the interface must display every possible action and provide an alternate method of selection. Combined with a lack of drop-down menus, the result is a busy interface that must show too many possible-but-unlikely actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cOn Browser UIs\u201d, Richard S. Tallent has a comprehensive list of reasons \u201cwhy web apps suck&#8220;. On \u201cmissing widgets&#8220;: \u201cTree views: even the best ones out there suck. MSDN, for example. They also almost invariably lead to using frames to avoid population and rendering on each page refresh. [\u2026] Context menus. This alone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}