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What the Web is and is not

Joe Hewitt · 26 Sept 2011

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  1. The Web is not HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's not DOM, SVG, WebGL, PNG, or Flash. The Web is really just HTTP over TCP/IP.
  2. Hyperlink traversal matters. The Internet being global and decentralized matters. HTML does not matter.

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