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by Dalewyn 750 days ago
>why insist on forcing text-editor-like behavior on the browser? It feels like a solution in need of a problem.

Because the browser is the operating system.

I might be only half joking.

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I hear people say it a lot and I know what they mean but I just can't agree... to me an OS runs on hardware. (or virtualized hardware) Browsers run on an OS. If you have "boot to browser" the OS is still the kernel. Browsers are userspace.

It's like that saying "The difference between a boat and a ship is that a ship can carry a boat, but a boat can't carry a ship." And I know there is jslinux but at that point we're in a Turing tarpit where you can say that the Lua VM or wasm is "an OS" and the term is just a five-dollar word for "abstraction layer". Is a function call an OS? Come on.