# Windows API is lost

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-api-is-lost/113468>\
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**Created:** [June 18, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-api-is-lost/113468 "2004-06-18T08:26:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![eyezberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/77aa72/32.png) [@eyezberg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eyezberg)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-api-is-lost/113468/1 "2004-06-18T08:26:57Z")

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If you’re a bit interested in the Windoze OS (this one’s for ya, Kirupa 😉 ), then read this [**(looong) article by software guru Joel Spolsky**](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html).  
It’s really interesting and at the end, considering what he doesn’t like about todays web-based apps, had me thinking just 2 things: **Flash RIAs and Central**!!  
Even tho’ in his [**latest article**](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/06/17.html) he says "…What I do not want to hear about:

Proprietary tools like Macromedia’s or Java Applets that embed clever widgets in rectangles in a browser. I want this stuff integrated with DHTML and CSS, deeply in the fabric of the web …"

Opinions?