> and it evolved from a mechanism to display static documents It evolved from a deliberately dumbed-down mechanism. Much more sane options existed back than, b

> and it evolved from a mechanism to display static documents It evolved from a deliberately dumbed-down mechanism. Much more sane options existed back than, but for reasons unknown (laziness is quite likely) a choice of a technological foundation was very much random. I do remember web from its very first days (used to work in an institute with some very tight connections with CERN), and even then I was wondering why such a good idea is going such a non-optimal way. And, well, it was not quite "evolved", it followed the trends set exactly by this lot - by the web devs. So I cannot see who else should I blame for this mess. > Which would you choose? If I had a choice, it would have been Tcl/Tk in a sandbox.