The
Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were
last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval
system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress
since then, due to the cleverness of the Web development community and the
surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. The Web is
no longer a driver of innovation. It is now a serious impediment.
The Web is
overly complex. It is visually underpowered. It is hopelessly insecure. It is
now under competitive assault by new proprietary platforms that hope to capture
the next generation of applications. Can a system as large and as open as the
Web heal and adapt itself to the challenges of the 21st Century?
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