Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Why I added "standardized and open source" in the title. I don't want random things executed eather and JavaScript is exacly that, but isolated. My post is about building apps heavly relient of all HTML/CSS/JS spec working exaclly the same just to bend and hack upon it to make something like custom canvas. In other words, modern sandoxed applets, if standardized, build-in and open source, would be much more healthy for web ecosystem. Why? Because to open this app browser need a compiler, OpenGL and http support, instead of impossible task of implementing all current CSS and JS APIs.
I don't see how creating new specs and standards would help with the issues mentioned. Namely specs and standards that have to be implemented.
OpenGL is already accessible on webpages. As are canvasses.
The only way to achieve it is to have an installable plugin that browsers just embed. Which is exactly what we had before and comes with the issues I've mentioned.
This also requires everyone agreeing to a single spec. Which hasn't even been achieved with CSS/js.
With OpenGL there is no need for much of new spec needed actually :). What we need to stop is
<div><div><div><div>...with complicated JavaScript boilerplate. And yes, I know dev is paid to make new function by boss that does not care if it breaks what web was created for, but I take my rant.