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Effectively the argument is "let's go backt to 90s web without video, audio, fonts or even page layouts"
by miohtama 2y ago
Effectively the argument is "let's go backt to 90s web without video, audio, fonts or even page layouts"
- graemep 2y agoI would love to get rid of fonts and layouts. As for video and audio, they could be done better AND more simply than the typically are at the moment.
- hello_computer 2y agoExactly. We used to have different protocols for these things, which were far more efficient than jamming it all into HTTP inside TLS inside TCP. Can’t even do UDP in the browser, which is exactly what you need for realtime streaming communication. 25 years ago, on my 1GHz computer, with 512MB of RAM, I had no trouble watching videos, playing music, sending files & emails, making calls, etc--all over the internet. So many people are confused into thinking that computing didn't begin until javascript, which was not the beginning, but the beginning of the end.
- hello_computer 2y agoThat isn’t it. The argument is STOP. Chrome has become an OS that is bigger than the OS it runs on. This complexity did not arise from “user features” (which the OS already covers), but from “google features” (the morass of policy to provide limited security on a dozen platforms without toppling the adwords kingdom).