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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by aikah on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:33AM (#10656053)
> So we finally have a free choice of OS

Not really, you still a browser that implement all this stuff. The only difference is Open tech vs proprietary.

Open technologies are obviously a good thing. Writing a software as complex as Photoshop for instance with the exact same features with HTML/CSS and JavaScript isn't going to fly and be usable for someone who has to work 10 hours a day on it. The performance issues will be significant. It's not a big deal for an text editor though I still can't open a 5mb log file in Atom for some reasons. No problem with Sublime Text 2 or Vim. Why is this ?

My point is Web techs aren't a silver bullet.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by Certhas on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:58AM (#10656284)
My point wasn't that they are a silver bullet. My point was simply to say that while something is obviously lost (performance, native integration, etc...), something else is gained. And that is massive portability.
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