I have nothing against applications. I just don't want applications inside my document browsing application. Some uses of client-side scripting on the web are

I have nothing against applications. I just don't want applications inside my document browsing application. Some uses of client-side scripting on the web are useful and necessary. When that is the case, make a real application instead of abusing a platform for publishing documents. Web app developers are just making things worse for everyone. When client-side scripting is not necessary, web developers use it anyway for some reason. Blogger is a great example of this: a blog post is definitely a document, it doesn't need any client-side scripting, yet Blogger blogs just show an empty page if you visit them with JS disabled. Why would they do that?! It's almost as if they want Blogger to be as inaccessible as possible. >My webmail client isn't a document, it's a browser for documents. That's exactly why it shouldn't be on the web! Abusing the web to make it into an application platform is like forcing a square into a circle-shaped hole. The web doesn't have to be everything to everyone, just let it be a platform for documents.