What feature would improve the web?

Re:What feature would improve the web? by ori_b on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:23PM (#3140482)

Kill the browser. Seriously, the way it's heading, it's turning into a sandbox for applications. So, let's stop pretending and go all the way - get rid of the browser, keep the sandboxed execution.

It would be great if that could be done along with the removal of all the hacks that showed up while the browser was still a document viewer, but that's not likely.

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Re:What feature would improve the web? by prodigal_erik on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:48PM (#3140585)

Please no. The web has vastly more utility than version 2.0 of client/server hell, with its entombed content that's only accessible through exactly one brain-damaged app which you can't improve. If javascript devours the web, it will be the second greatest disaster of our industry (second only to walled gardens devouring open tools).

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Re:What feature would improve the web? by ori_b on Saturday October 22, 2011 @11:22PM (#3145088)

Too late. It's already trying to solve two problems, and doing it poorly.

I'd like to see the two problems (application platform, interlinked document platform) split cleanly.

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Re:What feature would improve the web? by JoshTriplett on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:30PM (#3141025)

No way. The browser still puts the user in control, not the site; let's not replace it with any sandbox that lacks that design constraint.

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Re:What feature would improve the web? by snorkel on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:18PM (#3140965)

Then how would you browse?

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