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But your "a browser" is different for other people, which one do you expect devs to target?


I expect they to do the same I have been doing since 1996 for Web projects, Web standards, and do the needful to make it work across browsers.

Alternatively, do what I have been doing since 1990, middleware for business logic with native UI integration.

The four preceding years don't count, as I was using only Timex 2068 as my single computer.


The 90-s have very little to show for, especially in the area of Web projects and standards, the testament of the failure of the latter is precisely the required scale of "the needful"


Thankfully many old timers aren't frozen in the 90's, we rather use our experience to write proper Web applications instead of being ChromeOS advocates.

Can't say the same for the Electron generation.


here here. please excuse me while i adjust my suspenders and twist my beard as i yell get off my lawn.

when i reference things from the 90s, it is far from my being stuck there. it is because i have the living memory of the pain from that time, and can see it being repeated by the people that have no living memory of that time. i lived that pain once, i don't need to relive it because someone else hasn't and is too stubborn to look at the history and not repeat it.


At least we weren't shipping browsers alongside the content.


No, we were just mailing CDs and floppy disks with ISP software. At least the shipped browser isn't clogging the landfills =)




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