The web can be anything we want it to be

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I really enjoyed this chat between Bruce Lawson and Mustafa Kurtuldu where they talked about browser support and the health of the web. Bruce expands upon a lot of the thoughts in a post he wrote last year called World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web where he writes:

...across the world, regardless of disposable income, regardless of hardware or network speed, people want to consume the same kinds of goods and services. And if your websites are made for the whole world, not just the wealthy Western world, then the next 4 billion people might consume the stuff that your organization makes.

Another highlight is where Bruce also mentions that, as web developers, we might think that we’ve all moved on from jQuery as a community, and yet there are still millions of websites that depend upon jQuery to function properly. It's an interesting anecdote and relevant to recent discussions about React making a run at being the next thing to replace jQuery:

I’m just gonna throw this bomb here:

React is the new jQuery

There you go.

— Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) May 24, 2018

However! The most interesting part of this particular discussion, for me at least, is where they talk about Flash and the impact it had on the design of CSS3 and HTML5. They both argue that despite Flash’s shortcomings and accessibility issues, it happened to show us all that the web can be much more than just a place to store some hypertext and that ultimately it can be anything we want it to be.

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