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Let’s take Google Docs as an example. A word processor where you can collaboratively edit a file with someone simply by sharing a link, without requiring anyone
by jakelazaroff 4y ago
Let’s take Google Docs as an example. A word processor where you can collaboratively edit a file with someone simply by sharing a link, without requiring anyone to install an application. How do you do this without the web and JavaScript?
- tjoff 4y agoYou don't. And that is not a problem worth sacrificing the web for.
- jakelazaroff 4y agoThat experience is one of the most empowering things we’ve ever invented. To me, “sacrificing the web” would be giving that up for your vision of purity.
- tjoff 4y agoIs it that cumbersome to install an application?
- jakelazaroff 4y agoCompared to just clicking a link and immediately having it working, yes. Installing software also has much bigger security implications than just visiting a website. And that’s if the application even works on my OS!
- tjoff 4y agoNot having to install something does not even start to be "the most empowering thing we've ever invented" in my book.