Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

When you say writing and editing went to server, what do you mean exactly? The early browser that was an editor would build the actual html and server would just serve it (like nostr relay does), vs current web apps where users just fill some abstract fields and server decides how to display them? Am I getting it right?

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Melvin Carvalho _@melvincarvalho.com 2 years ago

Yes, pretty close. Details here. In a nutshell various editor functionality was in the browser, and got removed. Editing was on the file system until HTTP PUT was created, and also there was a continued browser/editor called Amaya. Tim has to this day been trying to put back editing functionality into the web/browser. See:

WorldWideWeb - Wikipedia

and

Tim Berners-Lee: WorldWideWeb, the first Web client

and

Amaya Home Page

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brugeman artur@nostr.band 2 years ago

Thanks, that makes sense. Question - do you think Amaya is way too complex for an average user and that's why it never took off? Could it be that the reason it's so complex is that it mixes data with representation? Html is all about how it looks, which can be infinitely detailed and complex, while people mostly care about data - those domain specific fields they fill.

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