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by Rusky 4438 days ago
I wish we would see more browser features (cross-browser standards, app deployment style, ability to run random 3rd party code relatively securely, app interoperability) moved into the OS, rather than more OS features moved into the browser.
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pjmlp 4438 days ago
We already have them, it is just web devs tend to blindly ignore them.
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Rusky 4438 days ago
I can't quite yet make a native, cross-OS app I can deploy by clicking a link and that anyone will trust not to eat their computer just by running it. It's also a lot more work to implement things like networking.
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pjmlp 4438 days ago
JNLP deployment of Java applications.

Click once deployment for .NET applications as another example.

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coldtea 4437 days ago
Only nobody likes Java desktop applications. Including me, and I've programmed professionally in the language since 1998.

And they are non starters for demanding multimedia work, which is some of the most interesting stuff you want to do in the desktop as opposed as a web app.

.NET feels better (because MS didn't screw up as much, as Java did with the overengineered uncanny valley mess that is Swing), but it's not cross platform.

So, still, not comparable to deploying in the browser sandbox.

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pjmlp 4437 days ago
> So, still, not comparable to deploying in the browser sandbox.

That much is true, I haven't yet used so brain damaged set of programming tools as the HTML/JavaScript/CSS gimmick required to make the so called web applications in all browser versions required by our customers.

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sp332 4437 days ago
Mono can run .Net apps on lots of platforms. I'm running the same Tomboy (note-taking) binary on Linux and Windows.
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higherpurpose 4438 days ago
The problem is then you're stuck with OS dependencies. Browsers are cross-platform.
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pjmlp 4437 days ago
Given how web development is "write once, debug everywhere, implement hacks everywhere" I have another understanding of cross-platform.
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Rusky 4437 days ago
At least you have the chance to debug everywhere. Current native tools often are just fundamentally incompatible. Even if we just had hacky cross-os standards that'd be better than nothing.
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pjmlp 4437 days ago
> At least you have the chance to debug everywhere.

Good luck with mobile and set top box browsers.

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