*too slow for native apps*. Read that again to yourself, slowly.

xnickb · on Aug 30, 2023

A concept of thin clients is of course completely unthinkable in this context.

dijit · on Aug 30, 2023

Thin clients with 2007-era javascript interpreters as the only code execution framework (vs local MACH-O binaries) does seem to be a bit of a weird choice if "slow" was the problem and you intended to have thin clients.

sznio · on Aug 31, 2023

There's also a backend. Back in 2007 a web app was mostly backend code that would send you HTML to display, and at worst it would have some AJAX for a chatbox/autoreload.