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> instead of hacks on top of hacks
Afraid that’s a contradiction. In this role, HTML is a pile of hacks upon hacks that was not originally intended for UIs.
But, yeah, people are trying to reinvent GUIs. By layering hacks over TTYs. If only there’d be some protocol for widgets and events over a stream connection…
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PeeMcGee • yesterday at 2:18 AM
> In this role, HTML is a pile of hacks upon hacks that was not originally intended for UIs.
I get where you're going and am genuinely curious, what does a "better" system designed to do what HTML/JS have become actually look like? (or what would one look like?) There has to be markup of some sort, and there has to be scriptable interactions of some sort, right? If not, how else would it work?
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em-bee • yesterday at 12:39 AM
plan 9?
While we're figuring it out let's call this hypothetical protocol X.