>They constantly crash and have no value over a native desktop application what so ever Well maybe, but you can blame the the top companies and greybeards for

>They constantly crash and have no value over a native desktop application what so ever Well maybe, but you can blame the the top companies and greybeards for not doing cross-platform better. Abstraction is how we don't have to deal with deciding which OS is the best for the average user. But anyway, there was still a wide spectrum of quality for desktop applications way back then like there is today.