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A comment on Ask HN: No web browsers left in 10 years, or only web browsers left in 10 years?.

Re:Ask HN: No web browsers left in 10 years, or only web bro... by ankurdhama on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:44AM (#12006611)
I would really hope for "only web browsers left". But then they wouldn't be web browsers, instead they would be the operating systems standards, like POSIX. I hate the scenarios that goes like this - "Hey I have an idea for a software, ok cool lets build it, but wait, what platform should we target?". A software is just a bunch of computations that interact with IO devices. why can't we have a standard way to do that?
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Re:Ask HN: No web browsers left in 10 years, or only web bro... by reysc on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:35AM (#12053714)
I hope so too. Yes there wouldn't be web browsers in the sense that you are writing. I like how a 'browseros' could basically treat software itself as a plug-in where it relegates itself to being an IO device for software. Seems very simple and modular.
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