The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
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Re: The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
#2Yes, and the right of assembly was a bad idea because it allows people to spread ideas we don't like.
The web was specifically made for allowing people to submit and share content. The problem isn't that this included a way to submit content, but rather that we expect people to behave in a certain way. In practice humanity refuses to have it's behaviour to be defined and standardized. If you think something is bad because it allows people to exhibit irrational behaviour then you yourself are the one to blame for expecting people to conform to your own expectations regardless of the options made available to them.
Re: The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
#3The modern web was a big mistake.
Re: The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
#4The modern web was a big mistake.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” -h2g2
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#5Everything is a big mistake if it lives long enough
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Re: The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
#7Yes, and the right of assembly was a bad idea because it allows people to spread ideas we don't like. The web was specifically made for allowing people to submit and share content. The problem isn't that this included a way to submit content, but rather that we expect people to behave in a certain way. In practice humanity refuses to have it's behaviour to be defined and standardized. If you think something is bad be…
Technocrats aren't going to invite you to their cocktail parties with that attitude! Since they're in control of an ever increasingly large share of our civilization, their desire for cogification of everything will keep on increasing.
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#8Nah, but, writing (and rading) that article was a big mistake! :P
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#9In the context of pictures, let's not forget that file uploads weren't originally possible via forms (e.g. IE 3 only with an upgrade).
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#10Adding interactivity was not a mistake, requiring markup to reside with the text being marked up was the real disaster.
Imagine a world limited to Windows BMP images and MS-PAINT, That's how I feel about HTML and web browsers. In that world, GIMP would seem like an impossible dream, just like the Memex does in ours.
It is possible to separate out source text, annotation, and code into separate layers, and even separate sources. You should be able to take a file, and produce 5 different views of the same file without changing it, or making a copy.
Just like GIMP, if you need a flat file, that's what Export_As is for. I want a world where HTML is obsolete old junk.