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> That's a wonderful sentiment but we said the same thing about the web and email Really? Web browsers, web servers and mail servers are beasts. I don't see th

by 0xpgm 3y ago

> That's a wonderful sentiment but we said the same thing about the web and email Really? Web browsers, web servers and mail servers are beasts. I don't see them being 'simple enough to implement in a weekend, in your language of choice'

revelio 3y ago
Not now but in the beginning they were. The first version of HTML was basically just a hack that glued an SGML parser to the NeXTStep text view control. The web didn't support inline images because the NeXTStep control TBL used didn't support it. Then companies like Netscape came along and started adding features. The rest is history.