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The fact that we're comparing a type of software to a school of science speaks volumes

• jupp0r 6y ago
  Is it? You could make the same point about engineering, literature, the arts, sociology, ... you get the idea.
  • tannhaeuser 6y ago
    I'm not getting the idea. The argument, as I understand it, was that a browser should aspire to be a standardized and relatively simple app enabling a large variety of backends to deliver content, not a never-ending "social experiment" to become overwhelmed by a single party extracting almost all value off the web, and becoming the only party with the resources to implement browsers.
    • jupp0r 6y ago
      The notion that the world wide web is "finished" at some point is just flawed. Today we do video conferencing, 3D gaming, biometric authentication, photo editing and all sorts of other things on the web. Browsers will evolve along the lines of users needs and developers innovation. If this stops at some point, they will become the new Gopher and something else will come along to replace them.