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by Waterluvian 1060 days ago
As bandwidth increases and the web sandbox matures, it’s fascinating to watch the evolution towards apps you just use rather than download and install and maintain. This will bother some but for the masses it opens a lot of doors.
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Timon3 1060 days ago
I love web apps because they mean I have to trust the developer a lot less than with native apps. Of course there are still things you'd have to monitor (e.g. network requests) to fully trust any web app. A good solution could be something like OpenBSD's pledge, to allow me to prove to the user nothing malicious is possible (e.g. by disabling fetch and any new requests, even from src attributes, altogether).
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Waterluvian 1060 days ago
As a sandbox, I especially like that there's a dropdown with a huge list of things a website/app can do. Many of them on by default, but I have total control over that. And of course the API for asking.

"Hey this game wants to use your motion controls and USB gamepad." Okay sure.

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Timon3 1060 days ago
Yeah, the sandbox is nice, but it doesn't go far enough. Let's say I build a JSON viewer. Why should the page have any ability to make network requests? So what I'm asking for is an ability to pledge that I'm not going to make any network requests.
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