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> This idea that we can divide the web into "just documents" and everything else But it's true. Take a Unreal's Metahuman web tool, for example. There is no wa
by divan 4y ago
> This idea that we can divide the web into "just documents" and everything else
But it's true. Take a Unreal's Metahuman web tool, for example. There is no way they can deliver experience they won on a current web stack, regardless of how many layers of abstractions they put over DOM or how many WebGL programmers they hire. It's just fundamentally an app that can draw pixels, bunch of them, and make it efficiently. Web stack designed for hypertext documents simply don't have capacity and competency to deliver that.
So what they do? They seem to spin up VM on their side, run native app, establish video stream to the VM's screen and simulate user interface in the web. I honestly don't know how you can call native apps "much less capable and much less competent" than web apps. If web apps so much more capable, why people with tons of resources end up with such ugly hacks instead of using full capacity and competence of web stack to deliver sick UI experience for their apps?
> The web won so hard
To win over something you have to have a competition.