A fallacy is another name for a heuristic. For example, one of Wikipedia's core principles is verifiability of claims to reliable sources, which any logician would identify as the appeal to authority. Likewise, the use of precedent in common law is an appeal to tradition. Fallacies are wrong when all premises are known true or false, but this is rarely the case in the real world. Applying strict logical reasoning to the incomplete information that fallible humans have everywhere but in the artificial world of mathematics produces an unhelpful result of "neither certainly true nor certainly false given the premises" the vast majority of the time.

But in a lot of cases, certainty is not needed as much as a preponderance of evidence. Someone just wants to know whether it would benefit him more to act as if a particular claim is true or as if it is false. Fallacies compensate for limited information by guessing which premises are more likely true given what information is available. For example, appeal to authority works in an encyclopedia because overall, reliable sources tend to come closer to truth than the average kook with a blog. And precedent adds predictability over time to the judicial system: similar facts produce similar rulings.

Which brings one to the question of why one would buy an iPad in the first place instead of a proper laptop, or even a laptop/tablet hybrid like the Transformer Book.

VOGL sounds like Vogel, the German word for bird, related to English fowl. If you ate badly cooked chicken, you might throw it up.

I too believe the expectations of the vast majority demand AJAX. However, I feel like arguing the opposing view of the vocal minority as an exercise to strengthen the argument.

Of course there's another option: having the entire document reload, and redefining "entire document" to make it less painful. Make the form a separate document so that reloading the form doesn't reload everything else. This is how Slashdot's comment submission form worked before D2 was introduced, and how it still works if you open "Reply to This" in a new window, and how it still works in (say) stock phpBB. And people who prefer not to run non-free JavaScript (or any JavaScript at all) on their computers can still use it. And if static documents aren't interactive enough, implement a native application. For example, instead of a web-based forum like Slash or phpBB, put up an NNTP server to which any NNTP client can connect.

People who dislike JavaScript don't want a "Web 2.0" experience. They want a separation of applications and documents. They want HTML to be documents and EXE to be applications.

This is how Slashdot operated before D2, and there are apparently a lot of people who prefer how Slashdot operated before D2.

A coding shop is supposed to first release a Windows application that has been tested in both Windows and Wine, and then use the money it earned by selling copies of the Windows version to hire developers to make a version for OS X. Or the other way around, if it's a Mac shop. Keeping the application logic (the "model") and presentation (the "view") separate makes it easier to maintain versions for both Windows/Linux and OS X. Or expose a network protocol that third-party native clients can use, such as NNTP or some REST-based API like Twitter and Amazon and eBay use.

So why can't native code companies come up with frameworks to make native code development just as efficient?

Who would be the authority for such registration?

Because historically, several CDNs have offered services only for static files, such as CSS, JavaScript, images, and video, not for dynamically generated HTML documents.

I'd bet most of these widgets require jQuery primarily because jQuery makes old IE less painful to deal with. It should become easier to deal with after mid-April when extended support for Windows XP ends. At that point, every supported Windows OS will have IE 9 or later either installed or available through Windows Update. And once support ends for Windows XP, web developers can presume it insecure. This means it will become unwise for a web site to let the user of IE on XP do anything requiring any level of security, such as paying with a card or even entering his password.

How else is one supposed to "polyfill" (emulate using an equivalent script) modern browsers' behavior in Internet Explorer pre-10? Windows XP users who lack permission to install a third-party browser are stuck on IE 8 for the next three months (or 18 months in the case of Windows Server 2003), and Windows Vista users who lack permission to install a third-party browser are stuck on IE 9.

And watch your permissions make eBay, Amazon, Google, your bank, your government, and other widely used or essential web applications useless.

How much would browser makers charge for this registration?

Good luck running Mac-exclusive games or iOS games on your Windows PC. They exist.

Provided that the publisher forgets to rotate the "ad server" and "essential resources" subdomains daily.

Unless the script file includes essential resources for decrypting the text of the page itself.

Then I guess ads are for discovering "consumer compare sites" in the first place.

The code isn't the same so long as 1. HTML5 prefix hell is allowed to continue and 2. companies like Apple continue to deliberately leave things like WebGL and getUserMedia unimplemented.

What's a better term than "business logic" for that which should be kept separate from presentation? There's "game logic", but that too is domain-specific. "Application logic" perhaps?

Last time I read about Quake Live, it was a browser plug-in. Mobile browsers tend not to support plug-ins, especially plug-ins compiled for x86.

The "complete corresponding source code" under the GPL includes "installation information" (GPLv3) or "scripts used to control installation" (GPLv2), which would appear to include a usable signing key. Apple forbids disclosing this information.

By the time you pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard to a tablet, you might as well use a laptop.

I don't think a lot of people want to have to carry two tablets, one to run iPad apps and one to run Android apps.

By making it available on Firefox OS handsets and on those Android devices that don't ship with Google Play Services, such as Kindle Fire series, several devices popular in China, and phones with CyanogenMod system software installed that don't have the Gapps.