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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by geofft on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:11PM (#19432907)
> You can have sandboxing without running pseudo-applications in a document viewer and without walled gardens.

Please expand on this claim. What is a "pseudo-application" and what is a "document viewer"? In particular, how does having an app runtime outside a "document viewer" accomplish the goals you would like to see?

> Its possible to create garbage desktop apps. But its impossible to create non-garbage web apps.

Please expand on this claim. I've seen tons of non-garbage web apps.

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by saagarjha on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:26PM (#19433091)
> What is a "pseudo-application" and what is a "document viewer"?

Presumably, a webpage in a browser.

> In particular, how does having an app runtime outside a "document viewer" accomplish the goals you would like to see?

> I've seen tons of non-garbage web apps.

Good web software can't compete with good native software in things like performance and platform features, so this is my guess as to what is considered to be non-"garbage".

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