#reimaginingtheweb — Public Fediverse posts

The 2nd original mistake regarding the #WorldWideWeb was the choice to give the web page/site author control over how the page would be rendered by de browser

It should've been left to the browser developers, letting browsers compete on their default uniform look and feel for the whole web

Likely eventually leading to installable look and feel packages designed by expert designers and enthusiasts which you can load into the browser like extensions.

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I would like to suggest

- Integrate Tor, support onion site out of the box
- Add a automapper to the browser, massively improving on how browsing history is visualised
- Someone develop a distributed search engine
- Someone develop a NetNewsWire clone for FreeBSD, Linux, ...
- Someone make "hyperlink review blogging" super easy, barely an inconvenience

In other words: Make finding what you look for and discovering novelty super easy again

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I want a browser which understands #WWW, #Gopher, #Gemini, #HTTP, #FTP, #WebDav+#DeltaV, #Magnet, #i2p, #tor #onion (and likely more?)

I want an browser that comes with an editor which lets me easily create web sites and publish them in some manner

Why don't we have a "Publish…" command near the "Print…" command OS wide, but at least in nearly all document apps?

I want a browser which when given a HTTP-URL looks for a "torrent" file and when it find it will torrent files down as needed (and share) files as requested by others... would be an awesome way to load balance a sudden increase in popularity

Maybe even add support for "app.javascript" and "app.scheme" and "app.wasm"?

I want the browser to provide a set of styles which the web author can select from to render the page: Article, Paper, Advert, Newspaper, Journal, etc… giving the whole world wide web a more uniform look and feel

Maybe "index.*" should actually be an index? Maybe open a manifest file instead which tells you how to obtain the web site, which files to open first, have a map of the website, the license of the site, limits of control, etc…

I want a browser which when given a #magnet link download the folders/file and renders it…

We need an open source reference implementation build by people who are not thinking of it as a product, not considering commercial interests, refuses to implement shitty standards, is willing to push further, to innovate beyond the limited understanding of how a browser should behave... be opinionated and break the standard in novel ways but supporting them with a compatibility mode

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updated for clarity and increased insight
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