[giblaz]

This to both. However, the problem with the web is there are old implementations that must be maintained in browsers for backwards compatibility. The issue with this is that it increases the barrier to entry for web development because it's much harder for a new person to even know what options to gravitate to.

Of course, there are books and guides to help people, but how would someone figure out which guides are worth it? There are a lot of highly rated books on the topic of web development and if you don't already know what you need, it can be daunting.

But yes, flexbox is great.

[spynxic]

For the sake of creativity, suppose browsers were the wrong direction to take for web exploration. What do we do now?

The same idea may be applied to an operating system's ability to allow a user to operate on their machine.

Edit: It would be useful to consider why the need for a universal interface to the internet was originally sought out.

[rident]

Douglas Crockford would say The Seif Project: http://seif.place/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWRoLf7bns

[webjprgm]

Telnet? That's the alternative I can remember.

[kbutler]

Gopher!

[azernik]

The old implementations are going away a lot faster than any greenfield environment can totally replace the browser.