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by antepodius 2037 days ago
The viewport can be filled neatly by html/css. No javascript required.
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If you’re trying to layout a newspaper style web page, sure.

I think it’s less true if you’re trying to play a game, look over a complex dataset, do high-end image previewing, maybe host a multi-party video conference, or other highly interactive application in a web browser (for user convenience and, to some extent, because users semi-reasonably trust browsers more than random app downloads).