There's real irony in this statement, since you can't get much more fundamental than that. WorldWideWeb.app (Nexus) was created as a read-write client for both navigating and authoring content. Not only are modern Web apps not a necessary precondition for that, but neither JS nor any form of mobile code are necessary, either.
(The thing that Docs does wrong where "fundamentals" are concerned is its de-emphasis on the importance/role of the URL and making every Docs doc a sort of second-class publication that exists in this "other" kind of space—i.e., Google Drive and the Docs editor, which you always get a sense of being "inside", instead of the content just being out there on the Web.)
There's real irony in this statement, since you can't get much more fundamental than that. WorldWideWeb.app (Nexus) was created as a read-write client for both navigating and authoring content. Not only are modern Web apps not a necessary precondition for that, but neither JS nor any form of mobile code are necessary, either.
(The thing that Docs does wrong where "fundamentals" are concerned is its de-emphasis on the importance/role of the URL and making every Docs doc a sort of second-class publication that exists in this "other" kind of space—i.e., Google Drive and the Docs editor, which you always get a sense of being "inside", instead of the content just being out there on the Web.)