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If a browser was designed from scratch today it wouldn't have a markup language, documents would be PDF and everything else would be Javascript to canvas.

Suggesting something like HTML would have you laughed out of the room.

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If it were designed from scratch by BigTech anyway. Rather than JS I'd guess it would be WASM with APIs for canvas and accessibility. JS would go via WASM just like any other language you might prefer. If you asked about HTML you'd get pointed at the relevant render-to-canvas library in the language of your choice.

This is only the case because the BigTech view is one of an application platform.

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