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WebRTC and the File API: web browser is now a virtualized OS

• gmac 15y ago
  the web browser has now come full circle to being a very weird virtualized operating system, whose APIs rival Windows in size, idiosyncrasies and complexity Er, I don't think so (on any of those three counts).
• anon1385 15y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_platform_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_platform_effect
• kiloaper 15y ago
  Along with ChromeOS, NaCl, Chromebooks and a web app store, Google's plans to kill the conventional Operating System is coming along nicely.
• vannevar 15y ago
  I don't like to use buzzwords, but this looks to be disruptive. Let's take a trip back to 1996 in the Wayback Machine: "Later this summer, Netscape will roll out a comprehensive Internet strategy that will position its servers and browser as a next-generation Internet-based operating system. ...The only difference technically between Netscape's Navigator browser and a traditional operating system is that Navigator will not include device drivers, [Marc] Andreessen said." http://web.archive.org/web/19990428173124/http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0617/17netsc.html http://web.archive.org/web/19990428173124/http://www8.zdnet....