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Yeah. Browsers are unfortunately OS:es now, finally realizing pmarca's dream of reducing Windows to a "poorly debugged set of device drivers".
by tpmx 6y ago
Yeah. Browsers are unfortunately OS:es now, finally realizing pmarca's dream of reducing Windows to a "poorly debugged set of device drivers".
- waingake 6y agoAlan Kay reckons they aren't OS:es enough https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-bein...
- tpmx 6y agoVery interesting, thanks for posting! Edit: I removed some stuff I first wrote. > It’s both surprisingly and dismayingly difficult to get people — especially computerists — to criticize the web and the web browsers — even more so perhaps today. Definitely agree with this. People tend to view it as something handed down to them by Gods. It's not. Edit 2: This needs a larger discussion. I just posted it as a new submission.
- marcthe12 6y agoIt's still not is but it is has all the necessary APIs to replace native desktop APIs. So browser are the new display server. The Xorg replacement