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> But the web is not the internet. The "web" is a joke. Other people here are taking issue with this comment, but there's a distinct truth to it. You can argue
by TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
> But the web is not the internet.
The "web" is a joke. Other people here are taking issue with this comment, but there's a distinct truth to it. You can argue semantics, but web "browsers" were designed around navigating HTML. Now they are IDE's for runtime-compiled applications using HTML primitives, positioned by CSS, in place of an actual, useful, concrete widget system, like you get in Visual Basic. If this had been the development target for "browsers" 25 years ago, I wonder how much better we could have evolved this system than the morass of JS we have now, and all the problems that go with it.