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@smallcircles I love the lead image, realise I need to set aside some time to read the article - look forward to doing so.

The graphic reminds me a bit of where the web was at the end of Web 1 / eve of Web 2.0… the W3C was pushing XHTML and tighter standards compliance / semantic precision – the web itself was chaotic and messy – and then the WHATWG formed from Apple/Mozilla/Opera in parallel to instead push for HTML5 with a bunch of nice UI things like CSS gradients, rounded corners, Webfonts, and native video and audio tags/players… and Web 2.0 exploded with pretty UIs but without the semantic quality or even agreeing a single metadata standard between Microdata/Microformats/RDF…

just small circles 🕊

@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 2 days ago

@nicol indeed it does.

There are these opportunities again. To shape a new and better web, get rid of 2.0, the cloud hegemony and browser oligopoly even. Various paradigm shifts like #p2p, #localfirst, #wasm, #HyperMediaWeb, etc. are to our disposal, and new opportunities arise, esp. where it comes to social networking.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

Nicol Wistreich

@nicol@social.coop replied · 2 days ago

@smallcircles if the lesson from that period is that ultimately it was the browser companies not the W3C that shaped what happened next - as they get to decide the priorities for their browser engines - I wonder what the alternatives are this time or if it is all in the hands of the biggest apps and services?

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