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Mozilla should make more fuss about this because it's important. I see my family happily using Linux on their laptops because 80% of what they need is a browse
by fierarul 14y ago
Mozilla should make more fuss about this because it's important.
I see my family happily using Linux on their laptops because 80% of what they need is a browser. And Google with ChromeOS also thinks that a browser should, in time, be enough.
So, the fact that we have ecosystems being developed where there is only one blessed browser (be it Safari or IE) is a severe roadblock.
The browser isn't like another app, it's more like another kind of AppStore. If we accept the current situation, they will find a way to monetize that too and there will be no escape.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoIs having one "blessed" implementation of the web stack on a platform such a bad thing? Ultimately I think the notion of the "browser" and "operating system" as we know them today will disappear, and we'll be left with OSes that boot straight into a rendering engine. There will be no such thing as a "native app".
- Ygg2 14y agoI'd say yes it is a bad thing. Why is Web so hot? Because it works on all platforms and is always up to speed. If my browser doesn't render a site properly I can fire up another web browser and try again. Imagine what would happen if each browser was locked into the computer. There would be browser war and someone would win. That means more people will use that browser/computer which will make developer hesitant to support other browsers. Circulus vitiosus and you'd have the same issue like with IE from ten years ago. Without competition dominant browser would stagnate and we'll be up to our necks in molasses. Operating system as they are won't be going away soon anytime unless the issue network lag, security and availability aren't solved. Otherwise we'll just return again to the desktop paradigm.