A clean start for the web (2020)
What we need is for HTML to get going as a hypermedia again, to make <i>the hypermedia architecture</i> viable for a larger set of web applications.  It's been stalled at anchors and forms (with only GET and POST!) for decades now.  It's astounding how much we got built with just that.<p>I'm trying to show where it could go with htmx:<p><a href="https://htmx.org" rel="nofollow">https://htmx.org</a><p>Hypermedia (in particular the uniform interface) is what made the web special and there's no reason HTML can't be improved as a hypermedia along the lines of htmx/unpoly/etc.<p>We don't need something new.  We need to take the original concepts of the web (REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia) seriously and push the folks in charge of HTML to do the same.  Sure, browsers as install-free RPC client hosts works and is occasionally called for, but there is a huge gray area between "applications" and "documents", just waiting for a more expressive hypermedia.