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by betwixthewires 1492 days ago
So are you saying you just want the web as it is? If not, what would you change? How would you prevent it from becoming what it is now?

I don't see why a document couldn't have a link to an application that opened next to it, so that you could view documentation and an application together. We should utilize the organizational ui paradigms built into our operating system, not use the system as a launcher for Chrome.

The effort is being done whether its all in one application or split into two.

It has to be siloed because if it isn't, you won't be able to find the document you want to read without running application code, as we see with the modern web. It's not a search issue, I find the documents I want to read just fine, it's just that they come with megabytes of executable code I don't want to run.

It would be nice if a client could only implement the rich stuff that it wants to, unfortunately, when the rich stuff is all different everywhere, it means only clients that support all of it get used, hence the current state of web browser development.

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The web is about fine as it is.

The changes we need are around people, improving liberal arts education; and ownership, having government run alternatives to most things like search, login, and payments