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I wonder, why you folks do not

  * build your own runtime
  * running in your own window
  * using your new protocol
  * using a sane UI language
Because the way it is now, the document centric web well may be destroyed, sooner or later by trying to fulfill more and more non-document needs. And we know, how that goes: where the money is...


I think the document centric ship sailed around 1993 when HTML forms became a standard.


I think it was somewhere between the introduction of Javascript, browser plugins, and/or XMLHttpRequest.


I disagree. Nobody said, a document can not be "interactive". With new technologies, old terms expand.

What I am talking about is the total applification of the web, as it happened in the last decade.




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