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This is dead right.

The fun begins when you think about how this impacts anything that tries to scrape web pages, because the side effect is going to be a lot of impenetrable data silos.

Google and co will have to actually run web browsers in the cloud and use OCR to do indexing if they aren't already.




My guess is we'll come up with a sort of standard API using JSON or such that we will make available the information and ultimately mimic what HTML does now.


Let's use an xml-like (but not really xml) syntax instead. And we'll make it so the browser can view this format natively (with no javascript).


This actually made me giggle. What a ridiculously backward situation we find ourselves in.


Maybe Google could write a performant DOM in Chrome before it is too late?


See Project Ganesh, demoed at the Chrome summit late last year and apparently in Chrome 41:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/19/project-ganesh-demoe...




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