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Let's bring back HyperCard and NLS, why do we even have these bloated, super limited web browsers?
by skadamat 4y ago
Let's bring back HyperCard and NLS, why do we even have these bloated, super limited web browsers?
- toss1 4y agoYup, with the benefit of hindsight, it sure seems that allowing browsers to be fully programmable was a massive error. Instead of a web allowing instant browsing jumping from reference to reference, we have pages that take tens of seconds to load on machines with massive processors & RAM with 100+Mb connections. Perhaps it should be bifurcated into a HyperCard-like browser and a fully functional client. Of course the HC-like version would likely die the same death as the 5kb website contest [0]. [0] https://www.the5k.org/ https://www.the5k.org/