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Browser are for whatever browsers can be made to be for. There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things

Browser are for whatever browsers can be made to be for. There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for. I am using gmail in the browser. I am discussing this with you. I am transferring money between accounts, playing games, filling out surveys, controlling projects, looking up routes on map, enjoying streaming music, video etc. It's all good.

zeveb 11y ago
> There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for. I can write medical-imaging software in sed, because sed is Turing-complete, but if I did that I would be insane. Using HTML, JavaScript and CSS for general-purpose software is only slightly saner.
- ThomPete 11y ago
  General purpose software such as google maps?
- sime2009 11y ago
  That's a ridiculous comparison. No one is developing desktop style applications using sed just because it is turing complete, and there ain't billions of people using this software running on sed. If the web was such a terrible application platform then it would not have been able to stomp the traditional desktop as much as it already has so far.
  - gaius 11y ago
    Of course it would. Have you not been following the tech industry, let alone the entire world, at all? Bad ideas become wildly popular all the time...
    - ThomPete 11y ago
      Your definition of bad ideas seems rather puritan. Not sure most agree on that.
      - gaius 11y ago
        It's OK the world is coming 'round; that's why it's all about native apps on phones, not browsers and mobile websites.
        ThomPete 11y ago
        The reason why it's about native apps on phones is because they don't have access to many of the hardware improvements that are being added all the time. But quite a big part of those apps uses webview to render information in.
  - PeCaN 11y ago
    If sed was supported by every platform in the world, including mobile phones, instantly deployable, upgradable, and had a more-or-less functional UI library attached, you can bet your Macbook a hell of a lot of sed would be being written.

zeveb 11y ago

> There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for. I can write medical-imaging software in sed, because sed is Turing-complete, but if I did that I would be insane. Using HTML, JavaScript and CSS for general-purpose software is only slightly saner.

ThomPete 11y ago
General purpose software such as google maps?
sime2009 11y ago
That's a ridiculous comparison. No one is developing desktop style applications using sed just because it is turing complete, and there ain't billions of people using this software running on sed. If the web was such a terrible application platform then it would not have been able to stomp the traditional desktop as much as it already has so far.
- gaius 11y ago
  Of course it would. Have you not been following the tech industry, let alone the entire world, at all? Bad ideas become wildly popular all the time...
  - ThomPete 11y ago
    Your definition of bad ideas seems rather puritan. Not sure most agree on that.
    - gaius 11y ago
      It's OK the world is coming 'round; that's why it's all about native apps on phones, not browsers and mobile websites.
      - ThomPete 11y ago
        The reason why it's about native apps on phones is because they don't have access to many of the hardware improvements that are being added all the time. But quite a big part of those apps uses webview to render information in.
- PeCaN 11y ago
  If sed was supported by every platform in the world, including mobile phones, instantly deployable, upgradable, and had a more-or-less functional UI library attached, you can bet your Macbook a hell of a lot of sed would be being written.