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by xiaoma 3301 days ago
About fucking time. I've literally been waiting for this for two and a half years!

This is absolutely huge. Many, many services that could once only be provided at a premium fee or by large to massive companies like Skype or Google can now be offered for free by small start-ups without having to worry about "this page was designed to be viewed in [preferred browser] version [foo] or higher" hassles.

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> I've literally been waiting for this for two and a half years!

Well, I have been figuratively waiting for it for 6 years.

If people had just built on Doug Engelbart's NLS then we could have had this decades ago :P
Well the version part still doesn’t go away ;)