I think you just described the browser. While there are some efforts to do canvas-only rendering in JS, they aren't mature and are meant for specific use-cases like game boards and stock charts. For a typical website, this approach would likely have negative implications for your site's accessibility and usability; the site would also be harder to index.
That’s correct. I was thinking more along the lines of video games and interactive stock charts. But as an easier way to develop GUI applications via JavaScript.
Perhaps where the widget definitions are described via an easier, LISP like syntax, and rendered by the Framework. Kind of like Emacs Lisp.
Actually, it might have been amazing if the original Netscape browser shipped with a Emacs Lisp like scripting tool to begin with. But instead, we got JavaScript.
