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Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by root_axis on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:36PM (#22619816)
> Web applications are not inherently more (or less) stable than native applications

Absolutely. The browsers are extremely stable and generally don't crash. The individual applications may still be bug prone but those bugs generally don't take down the system.

> OS compatibility issues were replaced with browser compatibility issues

Sure, but it's a much less severe problem (the potential for bugs rather than binary incompatibility) and one that developers can easily remedy based on visitor statistics without customer's having to download, update or take any action. This problem also becomes much less of a problem every day as the browsers converge on common standards.

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Re:The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers by progval on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:05PM (#22620119)
> This problem also becomes much less of a problem every day as the browsers converge on common standards.

Only Firefox and Chromium are able to keep up. It's an improvement over native apps working only on Mac OS and Windows as they are mostly open source, but still only two platforms.

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