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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Can we not do away with CSS/JS, learn from those mistakes and try something else? Pls, I beg you πŸ₯ΊπŸ™

E: Sorry, forgot the /j Lighten up, Lemmy, not everything is a serious comment that needs your scrutiny or meticulous rebuttals.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What would you replace it with? There are lessons to be learnt from the web, but to "fix" it is much harder

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Flash and applets. Let's just have a do over of the 90's and early 00's.

/s

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Nah, just back to Gopher and 5k baud. As an aside: Gemini is pretty awesome

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 4 points 2 months ago

Frankly AS did a lot of things well

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Please! I miss my Action Script 3, not this cheap wannabe TypeScript 😭

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[–] yogsototh@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first pass of elm ecosystem solved it. Before elm, it was also solved by other frameworks. But people wanted to be able to reuse their components and not rebuild new ones. React provided the ability to reuse css, and dirty js code in the middle of your application. You already had an way bigger ecosystem because you didn’t have to learn and built a complete new system again.

Personally if I had the choice I believe a new start should start at the browser level. Stop supporting HTML/CSS/JS. Create a new app-centric DSL and not a document centric one like html/css/js.

Ideally something inspired from cocoa layout. And I am dreaming but not accept generic code on the client side and only support a small controlled API. It would solve so many security issues. Sure, the creativity in such an ecosystem will be severely reduced. But we will have a so much improved UX.

[–] pixel_prophet@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I get the reasoning but anything like that would just be abused to enshittify things further with unblockable ads and enforced DRM on everything. At least with the open standards there is the ability to adblock and manipulate certain annoyances at a browser level

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we should start by doing away with x86?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Intel's way ahead of you.