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Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser by chris_mahan on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:50PM (#7301932)
I used the web in 1993, in the fall, with mosaic, and grey backgrounds. On a 286. With windows 3.1, and 16 colors.

So that makes it 20 years. (dangit!)

Anyway, I think javascript made a mess of it. The point of the web was to link documents. JS makes links obsolete, as they now are relegated to JS-app entry points.

before I get too much in the weeds, I'm gonna go read the article.

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Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser by zachrose on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:50AM (#7303404)
Shouldn't calling something "obsolete" mean it's no longer compatible or practical? Links work! They will always work!
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Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser by cgrand-net on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:29AM (#7305069)
The problem is not that JS is worst than links or forms. It's the most potent hypermedia technique (code-on-demand) but it lays behind the Turing horizon: you can't statically determine what it's doing.
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