URL as only one word(alphabets) no use of dots, slashes and other funky characters, like while you want to go to google you simply type
google
Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
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Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#32Web Development. HTML and CSS weren't meant to do the things they are being used to now..
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#33Reverse the order of domain name components. Most significant should be on the left: com.ycombinator.news/blah/file
the Brits wrote them that way into the 1990s.
yes! that was the original convention on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET.
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#34Turn off all of that domain parking and domain sampling nonsense. If you're going to grab a domain and keep it from everyone else on the net who could use it from doing so, you should bloody well pay full price for it every year.
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#35I think it is hilarious that no one has mentioned how Internet Explorer continues to ruin the web.
It has wasted incalculable hours of time for developers because it is pre-installed and never uninstalled on every little minded client and supporting IT team. I don't know how many times a great web product I have been involved with has been presented to executives who are still using IE7. REALLY IE (in general)!? How can a person make any sort of creative decision when they themselves have the worst internet experience of all?
Ridding the web of that awful browser and allowing technology grow and foster more inspiration is what we need. Without needing to support that god-awful wreck of a browser would allow developers and creatives a better space to work within to bring the web out of this lame web 2.0 era that will lurk around us for even more years.
BAH
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#36Some sort of seamless client certificate functionality to help out with authentication and identity.
The "com.google" vs "google.com" is interesting since it obviously should be "com.google" except that "google.com" is better for presentation purposes.
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#37Reverse the order of domain name components. Most significant should be on the left: com.ycombinator.news/blah/file
Couldn't this be accomplished on the level of web browsers (and lower), just by rearranging the domain name before asking the DNS? It does seem very abritrary convention-y, you know.
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#38The DOM. I'd take it out back and shoot it in the head.
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#39Compliant browsers without any of the subtle differences and hacks. A performant Canvas implementation, available in 2005, would have been neat.
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#40No more JavaScript. I don't think some transparent bytecode would ever make it, but a simple lisp- or stack-based programming language would be sufficient for a lot of normal tasks and a better target for more advanced systems to compile to. (That's the "one thing" approach. In an ideal world, I'd replace the whole arcane HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc shebang with an improved version/variation of DPS)