> ASCII has been
Which of the view tens or so ascii's you mean? Probably us-ascii right? I.e. a thing so limited that it's only supports english and not even most of the other Latin writing based languages.
On the other side if we speak about plain text it hasn't be that stable at all for many years and only somewhat stabilized now with Unicode + utf-8 and utf-16 for legacy reasons. And even now we still frequently get Unicode updates.
The idea that us-ascii is enough/usable/acceptable for anything interfacing with users is IMHO a bubble limited to (small? part of) IT people from certain english native countries.
> In fact, we already have a simpler set of web standards. It's called HTML4 and CSS2.
CSS2 isn't simple. It's also fundamentally unsuited for web applications, which IMHO was still also true for CSS3 until recently (css gid). I mean think about how frameworks (e.g. bootstrap) for years did all kinds of tricks to emulate a css gird like features.
Also HTML5 tags like header/footer/article etc. are a must have IMHO and something like custom elements for better composition and reuse are a must have, too.
The problem with the current complexity of the web lies in my opinion in the combination of how all kind of features where bolted on top of a foundation which wasn't designed for given use cases and many of this features being over engineered.
So I believe such an approach needs to fundamentally revamp or replace both the DOM API and CSS.
Which of the view tens or so ascii's you mean? Probably us-ascii right? I.e. a thing so limited that it's only supports english and not even most of the other Latin writing based languages.
On the other side if we speak about plain text it hasn't be that stable at all for many years and only somewhat stabilized now with Unicode + utf-8 and utf-16 for legacy reasons. And even now we still frequently get Unicode updates.
The idea that us-ascii is enough/usable/acceptable for anything interfacing with users is IMHO a bubble limited to (small? part of) IT people from certain english native countries.
> In fact, we already have a simpler set of web standards. It's called HTML4 and CSS2.
CSS2 isn't simple. It's also fundamentally unsuited for web applications, which IMHO was still also true for CSS3 until recently (css gid). I mean think about how frameworks (e.g. bootstrap) for years did all kinds of tricks to emulate a css gird like features.
Also HTML5 tags like header/footer/article etc. are a must have IMHO and something like custom elements for better composition and reuse are a must have, too.
The problem with the current complexity of the web lies in my opinion in the combination of how all kind of features where bolted on top of a foundation which wasn't designed for given use cases and many of this features being over engineered.
So I believe such an approach needs to fundamentally revamp or replace both the DOM API and CSS.