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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/18/62 11:42
Next wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> 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.
The fundamental purpose of the World Wide Web is to transmit documents,
not programs, and HTML was a format designed for representing documents.
HTML does have a facility for embedding script that allows it to be
used for limited distribution of applications. There are better and/or
more powerful or flexible ways to do that--web services, Java applets,
or AJAX, for example. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with HTML.
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