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Re:Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) by astrobe_ on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:22AM (#25168659)
Snobbism aside, I would gladly give up on some "usability" for a passive web (basically raw HTML or even Gopher or Gemini) and a separate active web (basically a proper virtual machine perhaps like Squeak/Pharo).

But as soon as you cut off ways to make the Web more "engaging", it makes it far less interesting for the ads market, so less contents. Even individual content producers (e.g. Youtubers, Twitchers) look for monetization these days.

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Re:Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) by jhgb on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:47AM (#25169399)
> and a separate active web (basically a proper virtual machine perhaps like Squeak/Pharo).

Something like WebAssembly, then?

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Re:Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) by astrobe_ on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:43PM (#25200818)
AFAICT WebAssembly is in the continuum of HTML/CSS/JS, and is intended to "make things faster", so there is no reason to separate things that are essentially text and medias from things that are essentially programs.

In other words, WebAssembly won't cut the Gordian knot, in my opinion.

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