As a lifetime CRUD programmer/architect, I have to say that the current web standards have been nasty to productivity-oriented CRUD. Desktop GUI's are still mor

As a lifetime CRUD programmer/architect, I have to say that the current web standards have been nasty to productivity-oriented CRUD. Desktop GUI's are still more productive and easier to develop. We de-evolved. The web really needs a GUI markup standard, something like YAML but with more interactive features. Emulating real GUI's via HTML/DOM/CSS/JS keeps failing in practice. They "break" too easy when new brands/versions of browsers come out. There's too many layers to get right and browser vendors don't always cooperate. A "GUI browser" that focuses on GUI's and only GUI's is needed so that distractions for other domains, such as social networks, don't get in the way. Java applets and Flash failed at their attempts because they tried to be too many things at the same time, making them too big to patch quickly when security problems were found. Do one job and do it well.