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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by thatfunkymunki on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:58PM (#19432750)
He's not talking about cancerous in-browser webapps. He's talking about actual clients.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by tehlike on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:13PM (#19432921)
You mean clients i can hardly update, and most often clunky as well? I dont see the improvement.

I can use web apps on any platform without waiting for the company to do it.

I refuse to install apps on my devices.

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by anoncake on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:20PM (#19433020)
> You mean clients i can hardly update

Yes! You dont have to update if you dont want to. Thats a feature. Of course, the rise of proprietary APIs over interoperable protocols has lessened that advantage.

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by saagarjha on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:23PM (#19433049)
> You mean clients i can hardly update, and most often clunky as well? I dont see the improvement.

Is better performance and more features not an improvement to you?

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by tehlike on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:40PM (#19433275)
What more features? All can be done in javascript, without making users install garbage, without spending extra resources. I prefer companies spend their resources on improving the product instead of implementing same thing thrice.

What most people dont realize is web apps are a boon to linux people. Most companies would not develop for linux at all.

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by saagarjha on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:54PM (#19433455)
> What more features?

Support for most platform APIs?

> I prefer companies spend their resources on improving the product instead of implementing same thing thrice.

Funny, this is exactly my issue with web apps. I don't want to use software where the engineers have done a poor job reimplementing things the system provides for free.

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by tehlike on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:32PM (#19433979)
Build the tools to enable them. Dont blame engineers lack of experience on the language. I used libreoffice early on, was not impressed. Same story.