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It certainly has advanced the most, but that's a misleading presentation. It has advanced the most technologically only relative to its own starting position, i
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
It certainly has advanced the most, but that's a misleading presentation. It has advanced the most technologically only relative to its own starting position, i.e. it spent all this time catching up from blank state to where everyone else already was (and still is).
- bobajeff 11y agoThe web does things those other platforms don't. Like run unsigned applications from any server ephemerally on any machine or system. It's not playing catch up so much as adding powerful features without sacrificing it's core attributes.
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- TimJYoung 11y agoYes, and yes. The things it can't do are a pain, but the things that it can do are things that are very difficult to do in a standardized way with desktop/mobile. A cross-platform UI that simply works on just about any device was considered the holy grail of computing at one point. Everyone gave up on it after a while, and very quietly the web just "became" the platform that enabled such a UI, without limiting how such a UI can be created.