I definitely view the browser as an app delivery system... one of the benefits being you don't have to install and thus largely avoid dependency hell. Recently

I definitely view the browser as an app delivery system... one of the benefits being you don't have to install and thus largely avoid dependency hell. Recently I wrote an .e57 file uploader for quato.xyz - choose a local file, parse its binary headers and embedded xml, decide if it has embedded jpg panoramas in it, pull some out, to give a preview .. and later convert them and upload to 'the cloud'. Why do that ? If you just want a panorama web tour, you only need 1GB of typically 50GB .. pointclouds are large, jpgs less so ! I was kind of surprised that was doable in browser, tbh. We save annotations and 3D linework as json to a backend db .. but I am looking for an append-only json archive format on cloud storage which I think would be a simpler solution, especially as we have some people self hosting .. then the data will all be on their intranet or our big-name-cloud provider... they will just download and run the "app" in browser :]