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It's hard to say. My theory is that the demand for complicated browsers is largely reciprocal to the power of your OS. If you have a Chromebook, then your brows
by smoldesu 3y ago
It's hard to say. My theory is that the demand for complicated browsers is largely reciprocal to the power of your OS. If you have a Chromebook, then your browser is probably less locked-down than your root system. Same thing would happen if Chrome's Blink engine got put on iOS.
Winning that battle would probably look like one of two things:
- Browsers go back to their original goal of being document renderers, and a new wave of local and online APIs fills in the gaps.
- Browsers stay the way they are, but with broken tooling that forces developers into native APIs whether they want it or not.