Comment by colechristensen
17 hours ago
I still want to reinvent the web with a hypertext document reader that doesn't include the kitchen sink. I suppose with LLMs these days this is actually an achievable prototype.
17 hours ago
I still want to reinvent the web with a hypertext document reader that doesn't include the kitchen sink. I suppose with LLMs these days this is actually an achievable prototype.
Conversely, a web app platform that includes all the primitives that are needed to build a decent web app (as opposed to bring your own everything/building castles from grains of sand model) would be nice. It doesn't necessarily have to be a browser, though.
We had those (Flash, Shockwave, Java Applets, etc.), the browser won.
Nobody is going to win over browsers with an opinionated batteries included application framework.
Those all had major issues. All of them were constrained to a browser environment, the first two were proprietary and full of security holes, and all of them had a reputation for causing browser or even full OS crashes.
I wouldn't say that any of them were particularly "batteries included", either. Flash was probably closest but still left a lot of legwork to the developer.
There are plenty of crippled web browsers out there. Heck, on iOS, it's the default.
nyxt? helium? midori?
There are hundreds of browsers these days, you shouldn't have a hard time finding one that fits your needs.
No offense, but you don't get it.
w3m, lynks, elinks? falkon?
I'm not sure what you mean given that JS and CSS account for at least half of the kitchen sink.
Hell, wasn't there someone that implemented an entire OS stack in CSS?
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