Re:ExoBrowser: The Experimentation Platform to Build a Next ...
by Jonovono on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:14PM
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Have you seen NiDIUM? Not exactly what you say, as they are trying to do away with CSS and HTML. But still interesting: http://www.nidium.com/
Re:ExoBrowser: The Experimentation Platform to Build a Next ...
by samatman on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:09PM
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Yes, I'm watching them closely. Doing away with CSS and HTML on the underlying level is crucial: CSS and HTML should be a compatibility layer.
* Functional (OpenCL is a good platform for this, you basically have little choice other than few-to-no side effects)
* Immutable (Everything the user does, sends or receives is tracked and stored in a distributed database)
* Detached from OS level concerns insofar as possible. It should be possible to run with a very minimal set of OS services, mostly the drivers and network stack.
Last but not least:
The HTML and CSS portions are rendered into a homoiconic data form within the language, which is all that programmers and users ever interact with. Any JS is wrapped as a library in that language.
Without wall-of-texting, it's hard to go into the advantages this set of tools would provide. The short story is, I'd like to be able to edit the Internet and have the edits stay up (from my perspective) for as long as possible. Also, expose those edits/annotation to people in my 'network'.