slazenger_one's comments

note that the link to hackernews in this lite-site list is just a link to the normal hackernews

this is more like a guide to first principles web design -- giving it a name like brutalist web design is really needlessly complicating things. this is all great but what would be even better is if we could get some brutalist web browsers and some brutalist application layer protocols.

html, javascript and css are terrible for 90 percent of the content that they are used to convey. they are bloated, too complicated, too open-ended and open the way for many security problems. also their complicated nature, mainly javascipt, makes implementing browsers too difficult which results in the current situation where there are only two browsers and neither is a reflection of what users want.

for 90 percent of content on the web, we don't need a turing complete programming language or the infinite variability that is afforded by html and css. we need an application layer protocol that is designed around the discreet use-cases that have emerged now that the web is mature. once we have that we can have better browsers that benefit from competition. and once we have all that, brutalist web design might not be a waste of time.