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Please forgive my ignorance, but what's the point of having proprietary web apps for Chrome that could already be achieved with existing HTML5 toolkits? This j
by bstar77 14y ago
Please forgive my ignorance, but what's the point of having proprietary web apps for Chrome that could already be achieved with existing HTML5 toolkits?
This just seems to be an effort to "app-ify" the web, that is, create a shitty appstore google owns for websites. I hate this concept and don't understand why people support fragmenting webpages like this. HackerNew may be fantastic, but release it as a website that all browsers can display.
- j_s 14y agoYour point is valid; I'd guess the developer's point in "having proprietary web apps for Chrome" is that there is no cost to run the extension in other people's browsers. It is a lot more work to do this cross-browser, even with some of the newer toolkits designed to help in this scenario: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913123/cross-browser-extensions-api http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913123/cross-browser-ext...