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Finally someone is saying it openly. The Web is amazing, the softwarestack powering is horrible.

Just imagine for a second we were to start from scratch. Imagine an HTML/CSS Spec thats easy enough to implement so that we have multiple independent vendors with competing, correct implementations. Imagine something like web assembly as the basis for scripting those HTML/CSS Engines. Imagine the amount of energy, developer time and bugs we could save with a sane, modern standard that implements all the lessons learned from what came before...

One can dream...




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