Fair points, but web today is not what web was intended for. It was supposed to be a document delivery network, but it became an application development platfor

Fair points, but web today is not what web was intended for. It was supposed to be a document delivery network, but it became an application development platform. Why? Because we need a sandboxed, distributed application delivery platform, and every previous solution failed or didn't catch on: Java Applets, ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight, etc. The business case of developing client-side applications trumps the need for a faster web at the moment. Is it ideal? No. Can it be fixed? Yes. How? Come up with a new rich application delivery solution that works in every modern browser in every modern os (mobile/desktop). EDIT: I partially blame Adobe's hubris for the current situation. They should have made Flash player technology free & open-source and focused on monetizing Flash creation suites. Instead they kept it closed, and that led to Apple dropping it in iOS. After that, for all intents and purposes, Flash was done.