Yes, it’s time for a successor format designed from the ground up based on 35 years of lessons learned.<p>For example the DOM scares the shit out of people. If you want to identify cowards have them write simple DOM traversal without query strings. I have an idea how that should work a bit more elegantly and simultaneously increase performance.<p>Secondly, almost nobody can write HTML correctly, considering accessibility and SEO. HTML should be replaced by markdown extended with identifiers.<p>Visual rendering should not redraw the entire page when layout changes. All that should rerender is the modified node and its containing tree.<p>Oh this list could go on and on.