Editors would have  carefully crafted native modules for viewing / editing each type of content and they would absolutely need to be native.

Viewers would be theoretically replaceable but the key of the whole experience would be minimal but good enough default modules that show how it’s done.

Then if someone wants the pure console equivalent or some proxy to make it viewable on an 8 bit computer, or more accessible, it can be done easily because the rules that define basic content types make that easier, unlike interpreting a modern web JS-ridden page.

Of course for a smooth transition you’d have  both the content to be viewed in native in the system and simple web exports for the outside world just showing off how cozy it is.

The temptation would be to make all this with HTML / CSS and base the whole system off it but this would defeat the whole idea of not having a humongous browser engine in the back.

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