What you say is true, and the way to solve it is a small minimal spec rather than these 5k page ones that try to describe every bit of detail. HTML4/javascript/

What you say is true, and the way to solve it is a small minimal spec rather than these 5k page ones that try to describe every bit of detail. HTML4/javascript/css were eminently approachable, the problem is the loads and loads of edge case API's/etc that have been stuffed into the browser to make it a "platform" are the problem these days. The browser IMHO should have been allowed to be something you write applications in, rather than a fancy display terminal. There are no ends of technical reasons why its a bad idea, but you have a couple powerful corps that see it in their interest (because they can control it) so it happened. As soon as you start to create "platforms" its inevitable that a single organization will monopolize it.