💾 Archived View for sdf.org › usagi › diary › 2023-02-10.txt captured on 2023-03-20 at 18:58:06.
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## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## #### ## ### #### ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ### #### ## ## ## ## #### ##### ### ## ## ## ### ## ## ### ## ## ## ## ## ## #### ##### ## #### #### #### ### # #### World Wide Web is dead v0.2 a short set of statements by Clover Wood, 2023 =================================================================== I am not the first to proclaim that the Web is dead, and I surely will not be the last. But I doubt people who lived through dying of the web would see the stark contract between the Web 2.0 alive and Web 2.0 dead as much as someone who time leaped from '05 to '23. =================================================================== A modern browser is a browser with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, right? Wrong. A browser satisfying those conditions won't be able to open very common "websites". Why? Because those sites are not sites anymore. They are apps. They don't have a collection of documents accessible by links. They don't give a predictable response to the same GET request. They serve content in JavaScript. They are often written in bytecode for a virtual machine (Wasm), they feature megabytes of (generated?) JavaScript, and they use HTML only to manipulate DOM. They might have as well render everything in GL. In fact, it probably would've been faster. In such a world, your browser isn't a browser anymore, it's a virtual machine or even an operating system. In such a world, Web is not The Web anymore. For majority of people, Web is dead. Let's bring it back?