[palata]

Because the scope keeps growing as well. People have been pushing desktop apps to the browser for years.

I wish the browser was limited to showing websites, and that technology for desktop apps evolved. But that's not how it goes for some reason. Some kind of imperialism in platforms? Systemd wants to take it all, browsers want to take it all, ...

[ahofmann]

When Google announced, that they've build a browser and a new JavaScript engine, it was clear that this would be the angle of attack against Microsoft. Back then, Microsoft had like 95% market share. There was now way around writing windows programs. So Google put millions of work hours into the idea of building a new platform for apps, the "web Browser".