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There's a clear argument to be made that technical capability circumscribes commercial possibility. Without active arbitrary code running on behalf of websites
by ethbr1 2y ago
There's a clear argument to be made that technical capability circumscribes commercial possibility.
Without active arbitrary code running on behalf of websites, control would be substantially tilted in favor of user clients.
There was probably no future where AJAX didn't evolve, but if it hadn't then things would look different.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoI think the problem is a different one. What we needed (still need) is a better sandbox for native code. So you can feel as comfortable running some offline app found in some rando's Reddit post as you do clicking on a link from same. Which, in turn, lets untrusted people create interesting new apps without any gatekeepers or barriers to entry. Right now the same thing happens with the web, but because web browsers are inherently client-server, that creates an implied server dependency and then all of the misfeatures that come with it.