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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by overgard on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:38PM (#27109324)
Arguably the Web does everything OpenDoc was designed to do. And better. The idea wasn't necessarily horrible (rich documents filled with disparate components.), but the technology was a bad idea (C++ish sort of OOP stuff... dynamic languages like javascript are just way more natural for this sort of thing).
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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? by flakiness on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:47PM (#27109411)
Yeah, specifically <iframe> has done almost everything what these UI-based component technology wanted to achieve.
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