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Discussion on: Every Web Application is the same, the SELID Website

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Ravavyr

Sorry mate, this is too much like
"All humans are the same, two arms, two legs, a head, yea all the same".

Websites have some similarities, but there's a good dozen variations in structure and functionality. Given the myriad of platforms/frameworks/libraries out there claiming to solve the web [Rondo sounds just like this], it's an incredibly vast eco-system.

No one platform [including Rondo] will ever be a one-size-fits-all service.

A 5 page brochure site, will never need the same setup as an ecommerce site, or a social network, or a CRM, or a Support Ticket system.

Presenting anything as a one-stop solution is just more of the same crap we've all been dealing with on the web for the last 20 years.

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Michael Landry

I'm not forcing the Rondo Platform on anyone, I just wanted to illustrate to the community about the SELID pattern and its extreme ubiquity. When both users and web engineers interact with the web, its good to be conscientious of these patterns and to have names to refer to them. This particular pattern, for all of its pervasiveness, does not have a mainstream acknowledgement it needs, which is a shame because I get forced into using websites that lack any map, pattern, or scheme, can't achieve what I need to do, and have little feedback in knowing if my operation was a success.