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> at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies Tied to Windows, mind you.
by solarkraft 5y ago
> at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies
Tied to Windows, mind you.
- kevingadd 5y agoHey, they shipped IE for Mac!
- GekkePrutser 5y agoWithout ActiveX support of course as that depended on Windows DLLs. Not that that was a bad thing though. As mentioned it is a really bad idea to auto download code off some random website and execute it. Naive we all were back then...
- forgotmypw17 5y agoGoogle promotes building (and builds themselves) in such a way that it only works well on Chrome, just barely works on Firefox and Safari, and doesn't work at all in any other browser. Unless you count reframed Chromium as "other browser", the equivalent of using Microsoft's IE-based WebBrowser component back in the day. I really don't see much of a difference.