• @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    If most of what you want out of the web is browsing static web pages, halting development of standards is fine. But if you want to expose capabilities through the browser like location that are available on new platforms instead of relying on platform-specific apps, you’re going to need new features.

    • @vacuumflower
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      11 year ago

      I don’t want that. WWW is not intended for that.

      If you want that, there’s been Flash and Java applets at least allowing whatever you’d like.

      That was the correct way to put cross-platform applications into webpages.

      Don’t tell me about security problems in those, these are present in any piece of software and fixed with new versions, just like with the browser itself.

      • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        I don’t want that. WWW is not intended for that.

        Okay, then links awaits you. I’d rather use something that enables powerful in-browser web applications while not relying on a host of proprietary bug ridden plugins.

        • @vacuumflower
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          11 year ago

          Okay, then links awaits you.

          It’s a client for the same broken thing.

          while not relying on a host of proprietary bug ridden plugins

          This is utter bullshit.

          Obfuscated JS is not any less proprietary or bug-ridden than Java bytecode.