>> The original design for the web was (probably) safe. It didn't require anonymous Turing complete code, and provided quite a bit of functionality with declarative markup. It even allowed simple (but still useful) server-side applications with 3270-style forms (again, no code needed). This was wonderfully useful, reasonably safe, and most importantly it was understandable by both humans and machines.
Thanks for that! So many web devs today can't even comprehend the idea that you can have interactivity without JS. Part of the reason for what we have came from offloading work from the server. I once made an Othello game with nothing client side but an auto-reload after a timeout - everything was in a CGI script on the server.
Thanks for that! So many web devs today can't even comprehend the idea that you can have interactivity without JS. Part of the reason for what we have came from offloading work from the server. I once made an Othello game with nothing client side but an auto-reload after a timeout - everything was in a CGI script on the server.