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The true reality that precedes your complaint: The world wide web was created as a remote-folder document-browsing application in which an index-page told you
by iostream25 4y ago
The true reality that precedes your complaint:
The world wide web was created as a remote-folder document-browsing application in which an index-page told you of the contents of a folder, etc.
One still speaks of a "web root" folder etc.
It wasn't designed as a FRP state-machine, or as a 2-way-bound GUI.
Before the XML Http Request, there was only loading new resources, so the notion of dynamically updating a page UI was entirely dependent upon clicking something and waiting for a new page to load with the hopeful results of your posted form data or whatever, reflected in the UI, IF the developer was kind enough to have done so.
This situation created the complicated frontend situation of today as it became apparent that the Web would be a general client-server application UI