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> 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 ach
by _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.