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Imagine a chat application you had to install instead of just going to a website
by mavhc 5y ago
Imagine a chat application you had to install instead of just going to a website
- Nicksil 5y ago>Imagine a chat application you had to install instead of just going to a website This is a bit of a bizarre argument. When using a chat app on a web site, your browser downloads the source, unpacks it, then executes in a runtime on your machine. You're doing the same thing, otherwise the app wouldn't work. You also had to first download and install the web browser used to download and install the chat app.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoImagine allowing a web site to be my gateway to chatting with people not on that web site. Imagine letting a web site decide what features I should have in my chat client.
- mavhc 5y agoWell, that is the fundamental split between specifying a bunch of features and letting people write clients, vs closely linking the features and clients together. When I can update my web client every day with a new feature, the advantage of not having an open standard is higher, I can invent new features in days rather than the years it's taken IRC to add things