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no, parent understood correctly.

i use 50 different interactive web apps, i do not want to install 50 different apps

most of them do not have a "protocol" - ehat is the desktop equivalent of ExcaliDraw

browsers will display invalid/corrupt images (best effort)

tried it right now - took a PNG and a JPEG, opened them in a text editor, literally deleted the second half of the file, saved, and dragged them into both Firefox and Chrome - they are displayed instead of erroring out.

there is a classic article why a minimal version of the web with features removed will fail - you removed 80% of the features that YOU think are not important. thats a classic fatal mistake

search the web for different proposals for a minimal web and you will understand - they will have removed some feature they think is bloat but which you kept in your proposal because you consider it critical. which is why you created a new proposal - their minimal proposal is not the right one for you

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...

htmlenjoyyeon Forking the Web

how is the web not democratic?

in real democracies the populists (facebook, tiktok, chrome) always win. because that's what the masses want

htmlenjoyyeon Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

you're on the other side of the secure door already

killswitch is to prevent you from gaining root

htmlenjoyyeon Forking the Web

> A page can then be tested against the standard and reject or accept as compliant. Pages that don't conform with the specification won't be rendered. It is explicitly forbidden for clients to accept any page that doesn't conform with the specification.

it's as if nothing was learned from the XHTML debacle