Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

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Post by misthop » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal
docs.google.com

Re: Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

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Post by mikece » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

If the basic theory is that JavaScript dramatically out-performs CSS and HTML in a browser, why not compile your CSS, HTML, and JavaScript websites into pure JavaScript similar to how Kotlin or TypeScript are compiled to ECMAScript before publication?

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Post by jhardy54 » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

Haven't finished reading it yet, but this is an interesting take. I'm curious to hear what other folks think.

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Post by tobr » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

Is this the canonical link? Google docs makes for abysmal reading on a small device. I see about four words per line on my phone.

Re: Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

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Post by filleokus » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:13 PM UTC

Maybe the next step of the "web" is just to fully embrace the browser as an app VM. Have one standard for reading Wikipedia, and another for running Figma in the browser.

WASM + some common simple widget-esque API (like a small subset of Cocoa/GTK/QT). The browser provide implementations of some functionality like text-rendering and event handling, but then it's up to developer/frameworks to solve everything else.

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Post by misthop » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

tobr wrote: post #4

Is this the canonical link? Google docs makes for abysmal reading on a small device. I see about four words per line on my phone.

It is as far as I could track down

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Post by kuu » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

tobr wrote: post #4

Is this the canonical link? Google docs makes for abysmal reading on a small device. I see about four words per line on my phone.

Maybe better in outline?: https://outline.com/jvqduR

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Post by dep_b » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

I'm just sad that this person has to build it's career on this stack knowing it could be so much better.

Re: Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

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Post by eighteyes » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

This document is an application

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Post by timw4mail » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

Seems like the worst possible idea. HTML and CSS are much more robust compared to Javascript, which is finicky at best.