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A Web Permissions API would be sweet, and only a decade behind mobile...

• pjmlp 8y ago
  Everything on the Web is a couple of decades behind native development. Given the failures of Web based OSes, where even ChromeOS had to reach for Android native apps, it shows we will never get there.
  • angel_j 8y ago
    Mobile didn't become "native" until the big players dropped their "open web" promise to throw billions at mobile. They could very easily have synthesized the two, but the profit motive and control of OS/Browser specs was too much for them. The "open web" was ahead of "native" mobile until the point of apostasy. Still, Mozilla could have long ago pushed a permissions API that put all web app permissions in a single modal. Instead, of course, Mozilla chased mobile (fail) and an endless sort of silly projects nobody asked for (remember web identity?).