Right now I'm a bit confused.
I saw here 2 aspects of the world wide web that make it "a mess".
1. The browser cannot host arbitrary processes. So instead of
something simple and general, we have the current html + CSS +
Javascript + webGl + whatnot… And of course a huge pile of
"standards" which we have to comply with.
2. The very hyperlink model of networking is broken from the
beginning, and is one of the primary cause of the need for big,
centralized search engine.
I sort of can see how we could solve (1). It doesn't seem so hard to
devise a virtual machine that could do sound, vector-based graphics,
and user input. At least in the light of the small size of Frank. It
should be both simpler than http + Javascript, and much more general.
What I _don't_ see is how we could do better than one-way hyperlinks.
What kind of "sane web" could help me find something on the internet
without the help of Big Data? I have no Idea.
Loup.
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