I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
While true, some things we want to simplify are sometimes as simple as they can be.
But saying that, I’m thinking of Java, not of the Web. Java is really a wonderful creation.
Just - sometimes when learning new things I understand that yes, I was right and some thing is too complex and it’s just that, but sometimes that it’s optimal and the “simple” way is even more complex.
IMHO the Web solves two goals, which should be separated. Global hypertext services and serving applications executed on client in a sandbox. The latter is far more complex and demanding for security and efficiency and features, but the former is far more important socially.
Maybe the former should rely upon a simpler and easier technology, like Gemini, and the latter be a kind of applications like an address book or a 2FA application. Where you see a list of imported connections, press “run”, and then over a standard protocol fetch the actual executable application to run in a sandbox. What the Web in practice already is for most people, untied from a global hypertext system. So that we’d have both.
I mean, it’s pretty normal to open magnet links in a different application, or download an RDP connection file and open it in an RDP client.
OK, my brain is asleep.