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The web document is a document with superpowers

The web document is a document with superpowers

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The web document is a document with superpowers

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- I've shown you how what is displayed in the browser's view port is actually a rendering of an HTML document downloaded from a server somewhere in the world. This is an important realization, not just because it shows you how the web works at a fundamental level, but also because it reminds us of what the web is for. The web was created to allow everyone to share information through documents over the internet. All the other stuff, making a document look pretty and have cool interactive features and so on, is secondary. What matters is the document itself. And what makes the web so special and so successful that large portions of the people alive today across the world carry a web browser in their pocket, is that that document has superpowers. Consider a handwritten or printed document. I can write stuff on it and then pass it to someone else, and they can read that information. That's cool, but it's also limited by the physicality of the document itself. Its information can only be…

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