The brilliant piece of the web, the bit that was revolutionary, the bit that most web alternatives not only fail to implement but appear to be fundamentally una

The brilliant piece of the web, the bit that was revolutionary, the bit that most web alternatives not only fail to implement but appear to be fundamentally unable to implement, because let's face it, this is a terrible idea. is the idea that one web document can load any other web document. Hypercard is the common bogey man for a better web that failed, but in my mind the closest modern web alternative that failed to do this is the app store. now I know why the app model does not let you load arbitrary resources and you know why the app model does not let you load arbitrary resources, but in the right sort of light, if you squint the right way, you can see what may have been, how perhaps the exec() syscall may have taken an argument, a url, of what to exec.