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I agree half way with you, we need the web split into 2 parts, webpages and apps. I seen some cool simulation, small apps, small games that I can just test on

I agree half way with you, we need the web split into 2 parts, webpages and apps. I seen some cool simulation, small apps, small games that I can just test online and not have to install them on my machine. Apple would love that we all got scared and only use installed apps from their store but the web is a decent deliver platform. If we could have a modern subset of html and css for news websited and blogs , and the rest of js for web apps then you can have the option to turn off teh advanced settings or we could have different browsers that could focus on different things, like a website reader browser that does not care about super fast JITed JS it would not support webgl,camera or microphone acccess, it would just focus on text layout and simple forms, and a web app browser that focuses on extreme optimizing for JS , canvas and webgl operations, camera and microphone access.

capableweb 4y ago
You can already achieve all this. Either turn of JS in your browser, or use extensions such as NoScript.
- npteljes 4y ago
  You can technically achieve this, but you get a degraded experience. Most sites don't test for JS being turned off, and it's not rare to only get a blank page when viewing a site in that way. What OP wishes for is rather an experience that decidedly doesn't use JS, similar to Google's AMP or Gemini. A subset of HTML that makes publishing possible, without moving parts.
- simion314 4y ago
  Actually I browse with JS off by default and whitelist stuff, ironic since I am a web dev (or maybe the fact I know how shit web tech is is why I think documents should be documents , imagine I want to show you my blog but I make an Unreal Engine 5 app because I want some cool effects and I also want to learn this shiny tool and the marketing team wants to do some shitty things too)
peoplefromibiza 4y ago
I'm having fun with Gemini exactly because it's so dumbed down that you can't do anything more than publish text It's still very niche, but it's growing and the protocol is so simple that I'm writing software for it, specifically a multi platform browser (more like a viewer?)

capableweb 4y ago

You can already achieve all this. Either turn of JS in your browser, or use extensions such as NoScript.

npteljes 4y ago
You can technically achieve this, but you get a degraded experience. Most sites don't test for JS being turned off, and it's not rare to only get a blank page when viewing a site in that way. What OP wishes for is rather an experience that decidedly doesn't use JS, similar to Google's AMP or Gemini. A subset of HTML that makes publishing possible, without moving parts.
simion314 4y ago
Actually I browse with JS off by default and whitelist stuff, ironic since I am a web dev (or maybe the fact I know how shit web tech is is why I think documents should be documents , imagine I want to show you my blog but I make an Unreal Engine 5 app because I want some cool effects and I also want to learn this shiny tool and the marketing team wants to do some shitty things too)

peoplefromibiza 4y ago

I'm having fun with Gemini exactly because it's so dumbed down that you can't do anything more than publish text It's still very niche, but it's growing and the protocol is so simple that I'm writing software for it, specifically a multi platform browser (more like a viewer?)