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That's because we've come to the point where the browser is now more akin to an OS than a networked document reader.
by laumars 9y ago
That's because we've come to the point where the browser is now more akin to an OS than a networked document reader.
- bittermang 9y agoI'm reading this thread on a Chromebook and really getting a kick...
- oblio 9y agoThat's because the browser had to do things the sneaky way. Everybody wants to control the app platform. Every time a cross platform solutions appears everyone tries to shut it down. See: Java, Flash, etc. The only one that platform owners couldn't really shut down (though they are getting better at it), is the web. It was considered too "dumb" to shut down and too useful to completely avoid. And bit by bit, just like the boiling frog story, people added interactivity features until we arrived where we are now. A bloated, perhaps crippled cross platform solution, but the best we have now for running things on things from embedded, mobile, desktop, etc., etc.
- Nition 9y agoSounds a lot like WeChat. Messaging app that's added more and more features to now become almost an OS on top of the smartphone OS in China.