Lossless Web Navigation with Trails

It’s hard to think of a better summary of the last 20+ years of web browsers — where most of the innovation could best be labeled as incremental.

The web also needs diligent people so that the idea of what the web is and what it does remains legible to everyone. This applies to being able to read the systems and social environments the web creates so we know what’s real and what’s not, but the call for legibility should also humbly apply to writing legible code and designs systems that are e... See more

What would happen if we stopped treating the web like a blank canvas to paint on, and instead like a material to build with?

Especially on the web, we are used to a a kind of a document metaphor that, the web is just built for, which is a kind of a vertically scrolling infinite page. Infinite canvases are essentially like a different document format. This idea of that there are two dimensions, or almost three. You know, you can move left, you can move right, you can move... See more