rho's Journal: HTML, that bastard

Ye gods and little fishes, how much longer do we have to wait for the Web to return to the way God and Tim Berners-Lee intended it? When TBL created the Web, it was a way for people to collaborate on documents while separated through space and time:

Abby and Bill work on similar projects. Abby is in Portugal and Bill is in Mexico. They can collaborate on a document during their respective work hours, and it's fairly seamless.

What we have, though, is a bastard child of hypertext newspapers and sanitized prole-feed. A document is created by a single individual and served to thousands. To edit the document, the creator must either type in control codes (<I>), or use a swell "HTMLeditor"like FrontPage.

I've tried Amaya, and I like the concept -- an HTMLis a legal, editable document, you just need the access control to change it. Neater would be the ability to add your own notes to a document (like Post-Its) with the ability to hide/show/share them.

Icing would be the ability to allow a TEXTAREA to have basic HTML editing features. This ought to be a feature added to Mozilla right now.