Thing is that the web didn't start with a UI in mind. It was basically shoehorned into that as Netscape and Microsoft battled over control of the "intranet", an

Thing is that the web didn't start with a UI in mind. It was basically shoehorned into that as Netscape and Microsoft battled over control of the "intranet", and then the dot-coms took the results and ran with them to the present day. HTML started out as a document markup scheme for scientific use, with the ability to embed links to other such documents much like a scientist puts in references in their publications. Only by overlaying a mass of CSS and JS do we get something that resemble a UI.