The browser is a terrible app platform that 'won' primarily because the incredibly minimal levels of holistic design in it meant everyone could agree on it, bec

The browser is a terrible app platform that 'won' primarily because the incredibly minimal levels of holistic design in it meant everyone could agree on it, because doing so gave power to nobody in particular. The downside of that approach is, well, it's just a mishmash of things that don't work well or fit together properly. It's not even really decentralised. From the birth of the web it was driven by Netscape, then Microsoft, then MozCorp, then Apple for a while, and now Google, with bits of Opera thrown in occasionally. There has always been at least one dominating browser maker adding whatever random features they thought would be cool at the time.