Why would you want to have a web interface? The web stack is crufty as hell, and the web has the one major problem that it forces everyone to use the same UI fo

Why would you want to have a web interface? The web stack is crufty as hell, and the web has the one major problem that it forces everyone to use the same UI for accessing a service. With email, for example, clueless users can get by with some simple webmail interface, but that does not prevent me from managing my mails efficiently with mutt. The standardization of UIs instead of protocls and data formats is one of the worst regressions in IT in recent years, IMO.