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I think the main problem was that 'the standard' wasn't evolving fast enough to solve the bulk of the issues around input validation and UI building so we got this crap language that is powerful enough to hide a thousand footguns in a few lines of code. It will never be perfect so it will generate this kind of issue for the next century or so.

If instead, we would have gradually expanded the HTML standard without adding a fully functional programming language into the content stream we would have had better consistency between websites and applications and we would treat the browser like what it is: a content delivery mechanism, not an application programming platform. That's the core mistake as far as I'm concerned.