the second rule of web4 is that you don't talk about web3.
the third rule of web4 is, if this is your first night at web4, you have to browse
It doesn't support in line images. You can store and download and image on Gemini just fine. In line images are a Trojan horse for ads, web 4.0 cannot allow any corporate control to the point of ridiculousness.
the whole thing is a silly exercise because it will never gain any real userbase because it doesn't fill any real need. Not even for a government (even a socialist one). Reminder that you can still make your own website that doesn't have ads. But companies are never going to use it because there's no value proposition. And it doesn't solve any problems of the existing web's underlying technology, only repeats them because eventually people would want to add actually useful features. Even the original html supported images.
edit: also you can make text-based advertisements.
The whole point of the project is a refusal of the principles of an internet that has been entirely coopted by capital. It's not trying to gain a huge userbase or fill a specific need or anything, it's just a cool project for people to share things that exists outside of the process of capital formation and value extraction. It's just something different, and I quite like spending time there. It doesn't need to do everything the current web does because it's not trying to be that.
no more search engines. you grow by word of mouth or you do not grow
universities may have search engines for scholarly work, as a treat
Web 4 bans Javascript or anything like that of any kind
Edit: embedded MIDI music is to be encouraged
Unfortunately there's a shit ton that can't be done without JavaScript.
No Typescript either I’m afraid, all JS is :haram:. If we must use a Brendan Eich language, we’re going back to the embedded Scheme he implemented before Netscape said “make it look like Java”.
Oh we could definitely do with switching to just about any other language. WebAssembly seems interesting but AFAIK it still requires a JS call to initialize on a page.
But we need a programming/scripting language.
That would definitely be a major improvement.
AFAIK upcoming ECMAScript specifications are adding TypeScript features so that's a good first step.
Some native way to make reactive pages with html templating would be very nice.
don't tar the noble Rat, Mouse, Capybara, and Guinea Pig with the brush of that bastard. I'm doing web5, only rodents. Mouse City baby
ty for informing me about moonrats...... incredible creature https://nitter.net/tinyawoo/status/1184326130993639424
I'm on board as long as we can upgrade "banned" to something a little more permanent later on
