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"Web browsers as software are meant to access and render html obtained via http" HTTP is a slave protocol, where you need a master. It's time to retire it, an
by zoobab 6y ago
"Web browsers as software are meant to access and render html obtained via http"
HTTP is a slave protocol, where you need a master.
It's time to retire it, and design the web with an uncensorable protocol that does not loose memory.
The slave design of a web server need to go.
- dredmorbius 6y agoCan you unpack this, because there's much that may or may not be in what you said.
- 6510 6y agoThe goal should be to render HTML documents not control where they come from. The server/client model or the master/slave model is only interesting if the clients are mediocre computers with limited bandwidth. Think of it like managing a bunch of children. It's a great formula until they are old and mature enough. If you continue to control them as if children they effectively become your slaves. I have tons of bandwidth and disk space. This is all that is required. If you unreasonably insist I should also be the one to serve every request it's game over for me. Not by technical limitation but by force. Oh, I can rent my own web space? I haven't money for this and it has been tried before. Those sites are all gone. Everything is gone. I have tens of thousands of blog postings talking about stuff that doesn't exist anymore.