That was an evolutionary dead end that didn’t persist; since every other browser that followed focused on retrieval and display, not editing, they didn’t need t

That was an evolutionary dead end that didn’t persist; since every other browser that followed focused on retrieval and display, not editing, they didn’t need to distinguish between “follow this link” and “open this link for editing.” (To be fair, given the lessons of SGML, there wasn’t any reason to think folks would just open up vi or emacs and start editing markup, so they get a pass on the UX for that one.)