> To actually solve and evolve that you need to actually rethink things from scratch. That's why UI is slowly but surely escaping into Canvas and WebGL.
idk how you experience the last 20 years in the web without seeing a proof that we solved and evolved. the dom is in fact so successful and popular for ui that not only is it used for _more_ of what's on the web than it was 20 years ago, but that web ui's only "escape" has been onto the desktop, phones, tvs, embedded, etc
The DOM was standardized, and became ubiquitous. From thereon, people built upon that not because it was great but because it was all there was. JavaScript is also all there is and was, and everyone agrees that it is everything but great. Even the inception of nodejs and demo is due to the fact that the infrastructure was already there.
Being pervasive is not the same thing as being good or decent.
Just because adoption spit off of it’s initial purpose doesn’t mean it’s a good technological plinth, not even in its initial intended scope — nor that it doesn’t.
There are other consideration in technological spread that by far outweigh "being the pinnacle of technological achievement in its field".
idk how you experience the last 20 years in the web without seeing a proof that we solved and evolved. the dom is in fact so successful and popular for ui that not only is it used for _more_ of what's on the web than it was 20 years ago, but that web ui's only "escape" has been onto the desktop, phones, tvs, embedded, etc