Drew DeVault ( @sir )has a new blog entry making a case for the Web being dead.

"We have no recourse left to preserve the web. This is why I'm throwing my weight behind Gemini, a protocol which is much simpler than the web, and which you can implement yourself in a weekend. Forget about the web, it's a lost cause. Let's move on."

gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.gmi

https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.html

#Gemini #SmallInternet #Blog

@dublinux @sir I hear and feel that frustration with what client-side web technology has become. but hypertext is really still not that complicated. you can write a web server in less than twenty lines of most popular programming languages (albeit not a secure or scalable one, and you'll rely on another http implementation), but if simplicity is what you want, look to the #indieweb movement for accessible, hackable tools.

@travisfw @dublinux @sir Also: The Web can be *almost* as simple as Gemini (depending on how much you want to implement) if only sites would stop relying on JavaScript (and less importantly CSS).

Which I find a majority of websites do, it's just the popular sites which are a problem!

That's my experience anyways!

@alcinnz @dublinux @sir yeah JS always seemed like a mistake. from my first exposure to it in 2001.

@travisfw @dublinux @sir Yeah, now the question is: How do we put the genie back into the bottle?

@alcinnz @travisfw @dublinux @sir This is where Stallman (controversial I know) is right inn being annoying, if you go browse a site with firefox with no-script installed and this site shows you a blank page most users would say no-script makes the web unusable (heard it on a podcast one time) but the correct action would be to notify the author that their page is broken, because it is... a website should be written in HTML according to W3C and everything is else is adidtional!