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> Browsers are fine as long as you use them for what they are meant to be used A lot of people now want to use their browser for far more than that and browser
by talkingquickly 13y ago
> Browsers are fine as long as you use them for what they are meant to be used
A lot of people now want to use their browser for far more than that and browser technologies are evolving accordingly. I'd suggest it's been quite a while since browsers were meant to be used for nothing more than browsing html files.
- jokoon 13y agoSo true. Browser were meant to display page, the day javascript was introduced, nobody would have really imagined to see 3D webgl games running on the monster that is v8.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> A lot of people now want to use their browser for far more than that No. People want a way to quickly use new software. It's just that the easiest way to achieve this today is providing applications via the browser.
- talkingquickly 13y agoOK I'll rephrase; for most people the internet isn't a thing where you view static html documents anymore. Therefore people want to use "something" to access these things (for example new software) and currently this thing is a browser. Therefore in terms of the expectation of a majority of its users, it's not accurate to define a browser as something for looking at static html documents. Not to say there couldn't be a different something for this - java applets, flash etc have all tried and failed to remove this from the browsers functionality to a delegated function - but at the moment there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative.