Sure, but compare "HTML + Web Browser + HTTP" to "ASCII + VT100"...
Right now the terminal is our window and it is nothing but colored ASCII. You can create something interactive and "graphical" like vim or emacs inside of it, but then you can't ship that complete dev environment very easily... it has to be rebuilt from scratch by the individual programmer.
The web makes it very easy to ship interactive, dynamic documents and environments around.
Right now the terminal is our window and it is nothing but colored ASCII. You can create something interactive and "graphical" like vim or emacs inside of it, but then you can't ship that complete dev environment very easily... it has to be rebuilt from scratch by the individual programmer.
The web makes it very easy to ship interactive, dynamic documents and environments around.