"Browser technologies are too limiting." Sometimes, this is a very good thing! The current browser technology model is somewhat of a funky, broken, incomplete

"Browser technologies are too limiting." Sometimes, this is a very good thing! The current browser technology model is somewhat of a funky, broken, incomplete technology stack, but has an interesting set of side effects. I firmly believe that creativity is born from constraints. The browser is a set of constraints that has proven For example... 1) Modal dialogs, typically an annoyance or "UI smell", are hard to implement 2) Base functionality: back/forward 3) Base functionality: window management 4) Base functionality: collaboration via URL sharing 5) Forced to either be ugly, or do a bunch of work and thinking. Desktop apps get away with arranging the native components into a pattern that looks like crap. 6) Can't steal the focus from other apps