2014-10-29 2:58 GMT-02:00 Louis Santillan :
> Some of the ideas you identified in "rebooting the web" were more
> clearly and concisely conveyed in Ian Hickson's Google+ post [0][1].
Sorry if I wasn't clear or concise enough, but there are points of
Hickson's post that only apply to a certain vis
2014-10-28 22:04 GMT-02:00 M Farkas-Dyck :
> VM is an option, tho a less versatile one. We could use capabilities
> where available and VM elsewhere.
Well, that's already more than twice the complexity before it even
started to be written.
I researched a bit on VM's and distributed systems, and t
2014-10-28 21:38 GMT-02:00 M Farkas-Dyck :
> On 28/10/2014, Daniel Camolês wrote:
>> That's interesting, but there is a problem. How do you execute
>> untrusted code? Maybe some kind of virtual machine?
>
> Thus, or in capability mode.
Capability mode would require the
2014-10-28 12:01 GMT-02:00 M Farkas-Dyck :
> On 25/10/2014, Daniel Camolês wrote:
>> But when it comes to application
>> distribution. By application distribution I mean, when we want to
>> develop and maintain software in a central location and enable several
>> use
2014-10-25 19:56 GMT-02:00 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
:
>Any _popular_
> reboot would have to require people to change very little about
> their habits, and to do no hard thinking about the nature of the
> Web--if possible, no thinking at all.
It doesn't need to be popular at first; it needs to be co
>> Am I alone? Is there any hope out there?
>
> TL;DR: Imho, there is none. W3c is the total opposite of suckless software.
The problem is not with this specific organization. Design by
committee is the source of the evil. Everybody wants to put a shiny
new feature in there. Also, you never want t
2014-10-25 16:59 GMT-02:00 Kartik Agaram :
>> Am I alone? Is there any hope out there?
>
> I'm working on this problem. I think the solution is white-box testing
> from the ground up, so that software encodes not just the rules about
> what to do but the specific scenarios that the programmer consi
When the choice you have is between 500k or 2 million lines of code,
it hurts to call anything suckless. I think the web needs a serious
reboot. It started out as a markup language for presentation-only, and
then it was morphed through a convoluted series of additions into an
application distributi
