"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." Yes, and most of the idiotic complexity on the web today is the result of people insisting that ins

"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." Yes, and most of the idiotic complexity on the web today is the result of people insisting that instead of clearly defined execution and communication models all we needed was a document with some "extra features". Admit it. Alan Kay was right. All the web developers were wrong. I like simple HTML. I even design most of my web stuff so that it works without scripts. However, the idea that documents are always simple and programs are always complex is wrong on the most fundamental level.