On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 02:58:46PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > If one accepts the hypothesis that the Internet is evolving, or > has already evolved, to the point that the web (presumably as > defined by W3C and WHATWG) is all that counts, all non-web > applications are obsolescent and browsers are the only > applications that count, little or any of the above is actually > a problem. For at least some of us who do not believe that, > perhaps because of advancing age and accompanying > stick-in-the-mud tendencies, it feels like a probably. I'll admit to a certain amount of we've-always-done-it-this-way, but putting that aside: it seems to me that collecting all of our eggs in the "web" basket is probably a strategic and tactical error that we'll come to regret. I know that over the past few decades we've become very enthralled with the web -- and with good reason -- but one day something will come along that supplants it. ---rsk
