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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by Spivak on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:40PM (#18437012)
Is it really surprising that in the wake of multiple platforms that refuse to interoperate that an OS that runs on top of every other OS is massively popular?

It doesn't matter that it's clunky and bad, CS people love working with hard to use systems, it just matters that it works.

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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by millstone on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:54PM (#18438697)
The websites google.com and facebook.com and twitter.com (to distinguish from their mobile apps) are very popular, but the most part these sites just render text and images.

google.com doesn't try to search my local drive. faceboook.com doesn't offer to share my local photos. Their usage of "browser as an OS" is extremely limited.

I worry about the other problem: the browser becomes so ubiquitous the OS disappears, along with any platform conventions and application interop.

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