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by philipwhiuk 632 days ago
Because the trend is also towards doing more over the web.

The web is replacing traditional thick clients, which also assumed a fairly stable network connection and platform specification.

Government systems need to work with the lowest denominator - even if it's not that common. Tech startups only need 1 client to exist at the start (and can mostly trust that their requirements will become commonplace as they scale).