I don't think it's necessarily true that only document navigation can provide a fast and install-less experience. I think from the beginning, distributing binaries and running them in browsers was not believed to be secure and there was rightfully no trust that different platforms would compile/interpret these complicated instructions the same way, so distributing documents was an easier path and it gained momentum.
Now however, you can expect browsers to support WASM, which is faster, lighter, has more secure packages, and really I think the reason that any applications are distributed as documents with scripts attached is because of the massive momentum differences. I think we will slowly see the abandonment of the web as we know it as more applications are distributed as binaries (not necessarily complete ones send at once, they can be requested too and render requested content text + images too) and the boundary of browser and OS blurs. I can't wait :)
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I don't think it's necessarily true that only document navigation can provide a fast and install-less experience. I think from the beginning, distributing binaries and running them in browsers was not believed to be secure and there was rightfully no trust that different platforms would compile/interpret these complicated instructions the same way, so distributing documents was an easier path and it gained momentum.
Now however, you can expect browsers to support WASM, which is faster, lighter, has more secure packages, and really I think the reason that any applications are distributed as documents with scripts attached is because of the massive momentum differences. I think we will slowly see the abandonment of the web as we know it as more applications are distributed as binaries (not necessarily complete ones send at once, they can be requested too and render requested content text + images too) and the boundary of browser and OS blurs. I can't wait :)