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>I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996. This is precisely the problem
by nilved 10y ago
>I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996.
This is precisely the problem the article is about. Why should one application grow 7.5 responsibilities instead of those being in separate applications? It's simply poor design, and now we're stuck with it.
- JadeNB 10y agoTo some extent, the 7.5 times (stuck with this arbitrary figure now …) more things that it does are not necessarily externalisable bloat—it hasn't grown an e-mail client (I think?)—but rather a response to the increasing demands of modern web pages. Offloading, say, JavaScript processing (a not-insignificant part of modern browser code, I think) to a separate application is surely possible, but also surely pointless.