I was thinking about this the other day, and one possible way to improve the situation is place a hard separation between web documents from web applications. Currently we try to shove both capabilities into a single paradigm (stack). But the two don't mix well.
What might that look like? Ultimately a much more elegant HTML and simplified CSS for web documents, and quite likely no HTML for web apps -- the Javascript and CSS would merge into a GUI-oriented language.
What might that look like? Ultimately a much more elegant HTML and simplified CSS for web documents, and quite likely no HTML for web apps -- the Javascript and CSS would merge into a GUI-oriented language.