> The web has been full of applications since the beginning, no? There was no golden age of pure document sharing. So much of the web throughout its history has

> The web has been full of applications since the beginning, no? There was no golden age of pure document sharing. So much of the web throughout its history has been CGI, ASP, JSP, ad hoc setups to provide dynamic sites. Session cookies, inscrutable URLs, forms with two dozen hidden fields encoding cryptic parameters... True, but many of those dynamic pages actually had semantic meaning in their structure. Think of a discussion forum, for instance. That's a case for which the WWW is perfectly fit. > Calling it a day and forking it" seems in some way to mean giving up on this fruitful encounter between two paradigms. On the other hand, this encounter doesn't look too fruitful in applications like Google Docs, Meebo or Prezi. In the meantime, one side tries to push for things that are primarily relevant for non-semantic applications (think HTTP 2.0's binary protocol, which is all around HN nowadays), pissing off the people who primarily want to transfer semantic content, while the primarily semantic-oriented additions keep dragging the other side back. People have been building web apps with fancy UIs for almost a decade now, and there's still no decent UI builder to speak of.