Many years ago a colleague and I wrote a stand-alone version of a package for my own arcane php framework called Remote. The idea was that you write in Web 1.0

Many years ago a colleague and I wrote a stand-alone version of a package for my own arcane php framework called Remote. The idea was that you write in Web 1.0 and immediately get a Web 2.0 front end because it just updates what it needs to. I still think this is the holy grail of frontends: https://github.com/dgrinton/remote-standalone https://github.com/dgrinton/remote-standalone