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by jeroenhd 997 days ago
Web browsers used to be about websites, not applications. That's my point. It took years even after Gmail discovered the XmlHttpRequest for in-browser HTML applications to even become a thing people would just use.

> What if you included "Only if you allow it"?

You'd probably hear something like "IE/Opera is bloated enough already", I just want my downloads to finish faster.