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Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 11/23/19 11:42
Next wrote:
> Years ago, it occurred to me that a lot of the trouble
> of writing web browsers is caused by the upside-down
> arrangement of things: Javascript code exists inside
> a document, when really it should be the other way around.
> And yet, although this seems fairly obvious to me,
> having tried myself to write a web browser and given up,
> I don't see a lot of movement by major web browser
> projects in a direction that might TRULY fix the problem.
> I do see a few slow-moving projects: HTML5 and Web Applications.
>
> These are not hobby projects however, and it does seem
> that "industry" always has and always will have a
> preference for messy, bloated applications and poorly
> conceived standards because these things keep people
> buying new computers and justify companies' existences.
> We as consumers and/or hobbyists however should seek
> a better solution, and create it ourselves if necessary!
>
> I would suggest to fix the original problem. Here is my GUIML idea:
> GUIML would encode essentially the basic features of a
> modern GUI widget system, with enhancements to support
> fancier features like animated sprites that you see in some web pages.
> But basically it would reverse the fundamental problem with browsers,
> namely bad design caused by the code-in-document flaw
> that has led to enormous bloat and which has effectively
> made many perfectly usable computers obsolete,
> because web browsing is a vital app.
>
> I would welcome any support or criticism of this
> idea but first take a look below at a sample GUIML web design.
> My initial idea is to simply take a familiar GUI like Motif or Java's
> GUI
> and use that as inspiration.
>
> And, to set things right I would completely remove from HTML
> any ability to run Javascript. HTML itself need not even be
> supported but could be replaced with any number of
> document formats such as RTF or something SGML based.
So you know XUL, the GUI framework of the Mozilla project?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/
Of course limited to Mozilla browsers...
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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/
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