The Web Can Do That? (video)

Excelent talk. I've been asking in various places how could I access the local file system with a web app and the response was always "You can't due to security reasons" (makes sense, I wouldn't want any website messing with my files).

When I saw the drag and drop + filesystem API + download, I was amazed, that is exactly what I've been looking for.

Excellent talk. Here are the slides: http://www.htmlfivecan.com/

I literally cheered during the flexbox portion. It will be so great in 2 years when it's safe to use ;)

wow can most people understand everything he is talking about? I have a long ways to go as a web designer/developer

Very cool, but unfortunately things "the web can do" are limited by things "bad popular web-browsers can do"

Great presentation, very informative, but on a slight tangent I watch things like this and often get frustrated with, probably unintentional, nonsense that comes out of HTML advocates mouths.

'I have to touch js and it's super icky' - when talking about boxes resizing themselves

It's only icky because we can't over-ride control behaviour at a fundamental inheritance level.

Truth is it wouldn't actually be a problem if controls were actually extensible and overridable. If we could actually inherit and program the controls in browsers this all would have been solved 5 years ago, instead we have to wait for the browsers to agree on the next badly written, half-assed death-by-committee spec they'll bring out.

I mean look at what happens at 7:30:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X...

Is that what I actually want happening? The content of B overflowing into C? No. But that's HTML's ethos, content is king, which is fundamentally wrong for apps where layout is king.

I have this constant nagging wish to 1. Use anything but JS in the browser and 2. To have actual control over the behaviour of controls and to be able to build composite controls.

Deep down I know it's never going to happen, but why do they have to pretend that it's brilliant when in fact it's just actually kinda sad that HTML is still stuck in the 90s. Why do they want us to coo over features that have been available in other layout engines for decades now?

It's like the speakers often wear a special kind of blinkers in presentations like this, like they've never used an application outside the browser and seen what computers and programmers can actually do when not hamstrung by HTML.

It's more like "chrome can do what ?". unless you believe chrome is the web...