This is fun and a great description of how raggedy web development really is.

I think we need to ask ourselves if HTML & CSS really is sustainable for crafting software. It’s fantastic for publishing text documents with a few images, though. https://twitter.com/callmevlad/status/1349726450555920397

What’s so great about the web is not HTML, but the URL and the ubiquitousness of the web browser, in which just one component is about HTML.

Here’s what we need to do:
- take a browser code base
- add a reliable UI API alongside HTML
- when a http response says “content-type: app” load it with the reliable UI API instead of HTML

This way HTML can be used for what it’s good for and app quality goes up, cost goes down.

Here's an example of why building apps in HTML is an uphill battle with very high development costs: [video]
Twitter is a huge company with many incredibly talented engineers, yet something as basic as copy paste breaks randomly.