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		exasperaited 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS WML/WAP got a bad rap I think, largely because of the way it was developed and imposed/introduced. But it was not insane, and it represented a clarity of thought that then went missing for decades. Several things that were in WML are quite reminiscent of interactions designed in web components today.

anthk 69 days ago [–]

Gopher today (and even more Gemini) can do almost anything Wap did but without being a dead platform.

exasperaited 69 days ago | [–]

Have you read the WML 1.x spec? Let alone WML 2.x which never really happened. It had much more interesting scope than Gemini does.

Gemini is not a good or sensible design. It's reactionary more than it is informed.

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