There was still a "web 2.0"-ness that people would recognize but in the weeds, there would be massive disagreements.
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Replying to @tomcoates
Again, most of that was anchored to better UI. I realize that makes me a heretic, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @slightlylate
You are also quite focused on making web browsers, so it's possible your focus on UI is related to that (not that you're wrong, though)
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Replying to @tomcoates
Yes, my biases are absolutely showing although I'd have expected a web of data disconnected from UI to take off by now if it were possible.
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...which leads to one of my great disappointments with the browser and webdev communities: such narrow thinking about data problems.
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It's 2017 and you still need gobs of JS to populate a <table> from a CSV file. WTF?
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Replying to @slightlylate @tomcoates
I mean, you don't even get any help along the way. No built-in parsers, no exposed data model...templating still too hard...
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That stunts the growth of data that could be linked outside of HTML. What if pages had a <data src="thinger.csv"> to help? Bootstraps things
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Webdevs resent that they have to solve this every time in a bespoke way (justified!) but don't turn it into real feature request...
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...and browser engineers go "oh, that sounds hard and icky and do you really need it anyway? They can just do it in JS..."
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...and now the web is drowning in script.
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