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Re:How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries by toyg on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:36AM (#26647861)
HTTP/2 and /3 are where "the web" really changes to become just another shitty network protocol. The beauty of HTTP was in it being hyperTEXT; now it might as well be some Novell crap.

I know that there are Reasons and blablabla but at an emotional level it's the end of an era, same to all these sites going React. The web used to be built on simple and easily-understandable tech, and now it just isn't.

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Re:How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries by charcircuit on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:02PM (#26654922)
>The beauty of HTTP was in it being hyperTEXT

No, HTTP is for TRANSFERRING hypertext. There is no reason that the transfer protocol needs to work in plain text (on top of TCP which isn't plain text either).

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