Thoughts
> The web is for documents.
This hasn’t been true since the 1995 SpaceJam website used tables to lay out buttons in a circle.
=> https://www.spacejam.com/1996/index2.html
It hasn’t been true since JavaScript was invented. It hasn’t been true since Flash games.
It makes me sad because people who believe the “web is for documents” are running around complaining about how bad the web is and how bad web developers are at their jobs and how bad the web standards teams are. And they’ve missed that we’re not trying to make documents anymore.
And so people turn off JavaScript in their browser and then complain that websites don’t work. And I can’t even think of a metaphor because there’s no where else that computer users intentionally disable a subsystem that is present on 99% of devices and then complain that developers assume that it exists.
And I love simplicity. I think it would be cool if a lot of webpages were just documents. I’ve been a proponent of Gemini, which is made for documents.
But I shouldn’t let these people depress me because when someone does make a cool JavaScript game, none of the comments are about how it shouldn’t exist or how it should be a downloadable executable.