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What’s about sharing documents which is still it’s primary purpose. And most of the current complexity stems from the sprawling JS API surface. We know how to s
by skydhash 2y ago
What’s about sharing documents which is still it’s primary purpose. And most of the current complexity stems from the sprawling JS API surface. We know how to sandbox software (VM and malware analysis,…), browser’s complexity is mostly corporate driven.
- bluecheese452 2y agoI don’t think that has been its primary purpose for a long time. If you want to share a document for the most part you email it. It has long since moved from documents to applications.
- layer8 2y agos/sharing/publishing/ The web was never much used for sharing documents in the emailing sense.
- hx8 2y agoI had forgotten the original purpose of web browsers was to view hyperlinked documents. It seems like we abandoned that as the primary use case over 20 years ago, with technology such as Flash, Silverlight, and Java Weblets.
- jakub_g 2y agoLet me update what the OP wrote: "How do we run arbitrary code on client hardware in a way that's safe for all parties and without installation step?" 15+ years ago, installing software on customers' machines could take days of efforts of dedicated teams. Today it mostly "just works".