> The fundamental language of a browser has always been HTML. JavaScript and CSS are great and came along in due time but before all that there was HTML.
IMHO in the sense of fundamentalism all major frameworks tried to reimplement and resemble HTML (or its dialect) and browsers on existing HTML and browsers, which eliminated divergence of platforms for developers, relieving them from dealing with variations of users’ environment, i.e. the differences of browsers and HTML implementations. It was a transfer of control from client end to server end, from users to websites, implicitly.
IMHO in the sense of fundamentalism all major frameworks tried to reimplement and resemble HTML (or its dialect) and browsers on existing HTML and browsers, which eliminated divergence of platforms for developers, relieving them from dealing with variations of users’ environment, i.e. the differences of browsers and HTML implementations. It was a transfer of control from client end to server end, from users to websites, implicitly.