> 1. When you go through the pains of integrating everything else, why not go for gold and exclude x/html and css as well? These are as "glue, antagonistic" as the other bits that make up the current webapp quagmire.
Actually, the x/html and (most of the) css that you see in our examples is syntactic sugar for higher-level constructions.
> 2. When ideas like PaaS are emerging, wouldnt it be better to bundle everything that makes up the app separate from everything that makes up the platform? [...]
Certainly feasible, but I'm not sure what would be gained, and it would make deployment a little harder.
Actually, the x/html and (most of the) css that you see in our examples is syntactic sugar for higher-level constructions.
> 2. When ideas like PaaS are emerging, wouldnt it be better to bundle everything that makes up the app separate from everything that makes up the platform? [...]
Certainly feasible, but I'm not sure what would be gained, and it would make deployment a little harder.