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by q-big
1356 days ago
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> Also though the Web has been pretty much redone from the ground up since 02000. Rather: An insane uncontrolled growth of extensions appeared since 2000. The only in my opinion serious attempt to redo the web from ground up that existed in this timeframe was XHTML 2.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XHTML&oldid=11002...). Since the arrival of HTML5 (which was a "let's standardize the wild zoo of extensions that already exist at least a little bit instead of redoing things from ground up in an organized way") XHTML 2.0 is dead. |
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In particular, in this context, the browser went from being a user-agent for browsing hypertext (a regular application, if one a bit 3270-like as Pike points out in the talk) to being mainly an execution environment for third-party software. That is, it became "the things that connect programs together". Most new software is developed for this platform, and it's a platform that barely existed in a recognizable form at the time he wrote the talk.