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The web is just a subset of the internet, and a shrinking one as a share. More communication over the internet is between client-server apps rather than betwee
by jackcosgrove 8y ago
The web is just a subset of the internet, and a shrinking one as a share.
More communication over the internet is between client-server apps rather than between browsers and other open standards, as was envisaged when the web started. JavaScript apps and mobile apps are tightly coupled with their services.
Although HTTP has proven resilient, HTML/XML has not. XML's verbosity that enables semantic meaning is exactly its undoing compared to JSON. When meaning is built into both client and server, communication needs to be skinny not rich.