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yes to all this, but then when do you stop? how many file types should be supported by a browser? i'm sure some people would like it that the browser could edit
by htor 8y ago
yes to all this, but then when do you stop? how many file types should be supported by a browser? i'm sure some people would like it that the browser could edit spreadsheets too. there are so many different use cases.
- eletious 8y agoAgreed. At a certain point you find that you've made more than a browser, you've made a full OS
- adw 8y agoIf you have a security model and a virtual machine, you already have, haven't you? Browsers are in a meaningful way already operating systems. (This is not an original thought).
- internet_user 8y agoYou are right, why stop at XML?! We should totally stop displaying JSON in browsers also!
- notafraudster 8y agoI would start with the guiding principle that read-only decoding is more important than annotation or editing; non-patent encumbered formats should be the first priority (and in Firefox, perhaps the only formats supported); and formats that exist and are in use currently are more important than historical document formats. I don't think this is egregiously bad mission creep for a browser.
- redwall_hp 8y agoI agree. JPEGs, PNGs and other image formats aren't core to what a web browser is supposed to do (and certainly not scripts), and certainly weren't in the original ones. Let's get rid of that cruft!
- krapp 8y ago>i'm sure some people would like it that the browser could edit spreadsheets too. there are so many different use cases. Why not? Why shouldn't browsers display at least the most common image, document and media types (including spreadsheets?) Why only display a few content-types but download all others? Content is the point of the web, after all.