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by kungtotte 2318 days ago
You do. Not everyone.

You know one thing I expect my browser to do that it has a hard time doing these days? Efficiently and correctly displaying text documents.

It has a hard time doing this because so many web pages think they need to be web apps and overthink things instead of leveraging the tools at their disposal in the browser.

Yes, if you're building a new Outlook or Google Maps in the browser it ought to be a web app.

If you're building the remaining 90% of use cases it should probably just be a web page with boring old tech. Add JS for spice if you'd like.