<story><title>Another 10 years of Internet evolution</title><url>http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-06/10years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codethief</author><text>&amp;gt; It may be slightly more disconcerting to realise that your electronic wallet is on a device that is using a massive compilation of open source software of largely unknown origin, with a security model that is not completely understood, but appears to be susceptible to be coerced into being a “yes, take all you want”.&lt;p&gt;If only the entire stack was open-source. I have to say, I distrust the closed-source part of my phone&amp;#x27;s stack far more (both the hardware and the software).</text></comment>
<story><title>Another 10 years of Internet evolution</title><url>http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-06/10years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatropism</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always been fascinated by the idea of text-mode browsers, but for most of it the experience was more and more aggravating, and never practical. To the point where console-based browsers like w3m started to strive to work more like graphical browsers...&lt;p&gt;But I opened that page in eww (the browser mode in Emacs) and it just ran perfectly.&lt;p&gt;Up until just the other day, modern web pages were serving a decent text-mode fallout, but they were placing sidebar content &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; the main content, so it came up &lt;i&gt;on top&lt;/i&gt;. This in spite of the fact that they could very easily have put it afterwards -- CSS is handling everything, no?&lt;p&gt;For an &amp;quot;evolution of the internet&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s great how gracefully this page degrades.</text></comment>