[airstrike]

This hits the nail on the head so hard that reading it feels like waking up from a bad dream.

> Browsers are built to understand HTML. Whereas in the modern world we largely ignore that and write double the code we'd have to write otherwise passing arbitrary messages and it introduces a whole new set of problems making sure those codebases line up properly.

This belongs in a manifesto. Put it on a shirt and I'll gladly wear it

[P5fRxh5kUvp2th]

yep, perfect example is the history API. People created the problem that the history API fixes by doing things they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.

You see it all the time in software dev.