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> Nothing about this is "web" specific. Moving the goalposts. You were saying that YouTube is a slower and clunkier version of a 2000 native app. Now you're
by haberman 11y ago
> Nothing about this is "web" specific.
Moving the goalposts. You were saying that YouTube is a slower and clunkier version of a 2000 native app. Now you're comparing 2015 native vs web.
> native is a superset of what functionality is available in a web sandbox
Web sandboxes have a killer advantage over native: no install.
And if we're talking about native desktop, there's another killer advantage of the web: you don't have to trust the app.
- simoncion 11y ago> You were saying that YouTube is a slower and clunkier version of a 2000 native app. You said: "Nothing in 2000 had a remotely similar feature set." Not that Winamp 3 (released in 2002) was a svelte piece of software[0], but it could do realtime pitch/speed shifting and stream audio and video from the Internet. With a sufficiently fast connection, three seconds from link click to video stream start would be quite doable. Streaming and decoding audio and video isn't anything new. The two new things that The Web brings us are "zero-install" and a the benefits of the large amount of sandboxing work that's been put into the major browsers. [0] WA3 was slow because of the UI code, not because of the media stream and decode code. :)