Yup, 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 browsi

Yup, 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/