It just blows my mind that after all these years, the very obvious problem that you stated yourself: "But it's hard to overstate what an awkward interface it is for building interactive applications."
has not been tackled.
The browser was made to display hypertext media. The DOM was based on that idea.
If we want interactive apps in the browser, why isn't there an alternative to the DOM for interactive apps? Why isn't there a DOMv4?
Why can't we let go of HTML as the outer shell of an application?
We are down to 2 or 3 major browser engines. Time to renovate.
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It just blows my mind that after all these years, the very obvious problem that you stated yourself: "But it's hard to overstate what an awkward interface it is for building interactive applications."
has not been tackled.
The browser was made to display hypertext media. The DOM was based on that idea.
If we want interactive apps in the browser, why isn't there an alternative to the DOM for interactive apps? Why isn't there a DOMv4?
Why can't we let go of HTML as the outer shell of an application?
We are down to 2 or 3 major browser engines. Time to renovate.