Yeah you're correct what i had in mind as more like dynamically loading new articles, for example for a webchat. Not "refreshing" as in reloading the whole iframe. Like built-in RSS but using semantic HTML.
> But programmers wanted more natural ways of doing it, which converted a document format into an application framework into an operating system.
I think it's more like hostile actors (including Microsoft itself) had so much of the market share that trying to standardize things was perceived as a lot of effort without success, despite lots of people trying. JS was the worst we could come up with, but everybody supported it more or less...
> But programmers wanted more natural ways of doing it, which converted a document format into an application framework into an operating system.
I think it's more like hostile actors (including Microsoft itself) had so much of the market share that trying to standardize things was perceived as a lot of effort without success, despite lots of people trying. JS was the worst we could come up with, but everybody supported it more or less...