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Honestly nowadays it seems like the browser is the right medium for everything. Most people I know who aren't developers or video game players seem to spend lik
by tdb7893 10y ago
Honestly nowadays it seems like the browser is the right medium for everything. Most people I know who aren't developers or video game players seem to spend like 95% of their time on a computer in a web browser.
- Swizec 10y agoNext step: Browser becomes full screen and always-on. People don't know difference between OS and browser. Rich websites become icons on your new tab screen. People call them apps. Tabs become known as virtual desktops or spaces. Somebody invents an app that can show websites and calls it a browser. The cycle repeats.
- _pdp_ 10y agoWhile browsers relay on modern OS to function the reality is that you rarely interact with the OS from user perspective - only when you want to upload a file and such. This is why the browser as a medium makes perfect sense for OS and I think this is why ChromeOS makes a lot of sense although we see it is not massively adopted - maybe not yet. But yes, everything you just said is like strange dejavu.
- shurcooL 10y agoHave you already seen the on-point "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" talk by Gary Bernhardt? It points out how despite being ridiculous, there are good reasons why an approach like that has performance benefits.