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by rektide 1253 days ago
I really hope some day we can appreciate that webcomponents are the best way to give users agency. Its an ok dev tool, but it takes so much invisible chaotic nonsense that JS does on modern sites & it can make it real, make it represented & visible & malleable on the site. It makes the web co-programmable, alike the better visions of what hypercard &al were maybe heading towards.

Treating the web as a low level platform that we can extense on top of, grow & further, with new, creative higher-level layers of hypermedia: that is a path to software with a soul, not just for big companies hacking out features, but genuine good for society. A malleable cohesive comprehendible connected information space.