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So, the OP is adverse to the JavaScript single page app fad, because in his opinion it is overly complicated to try to get a web app to behave like a native app, and instead should embrace its "weby-ness"? Is he just thinking about developers who have to use the tools he does not like, or the consumer experience side of it too?


Single page apps are in my experience a massive faff.

They may look good, but they tend to break things like back/forwards have text that can't be copied and pasted.

Some have embedded video, which eats everything.


> they tend to break things like back/forwards

That's not a requirement for building a single page app, there have been ways of emulating history in spas for a while now.

> have text that can't be copied and pasted

What do you mean? SI'm not aware of any sites whose text 'can't' be copied unless they disabled right clicking.


This logic is flawed. Disabling back/forwards, copy/paste. and embedding video has nothing to so with a website being a single page app.




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