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i wonder alot why the web wasnt just a bytecode interpreter instead of a doc format if you wanted to publish a document, just ship some bytecode to render a do
by andrekandre 6y ago
i wonder alot why the web wasnt just a bytecode interpreter instead of a doc format
if you wanted to publish a document, just ship some bytecode to render a document
want an interactive application? just use a bytecode library that renders controls and textfields etc
browsers then would become much simpler, and pages would just render themselves, meaning super old sites needing "quirksmode" would even be a problem....
i wonder why this never happened... what am i missing...
- Santosh83 6y agoI suspect it was to do with ease of publishing content, which when the Web began was mostly text. If the web itself was also text then it becomes a simple matter to write documents in your editor and push it (with a little markup). Converting text content into bytecode describing layout would need a dedicated program instead of using any old text editor. I don't think the creators of the web ever imagined how it would take off and the kind of scope-creep that would happen even in their wildest dreams. And now we're stuck with the existing formats because doing anything else will likely break billions of old websites out there.