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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by solarkraft on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:10PM (#29619523)
> at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies

Tied to Windows, mind you.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by forgotmypw17 on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:01AM (#29622170)
Google promotes building (and builds themselves) in such a way that it only works well on Chrome, just barely works on Firefox and Safari, and doesn't work at all in any other browser.

Unless you count reframed Chromium as "other browser", the equivalent of using Microsoft's IE-based WebBrowser component back in the day.

I really don't see much of a difference.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by kevingadd on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:59PM (#29619952)
Hey, they shipped IE for Mac!
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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by GekkePrutser on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:11PM (#29621183)
Without ActiveX support of course as that depended on Windows DLLs.

Not that that was a bad thing though. As mentioned it is a really bad idea to auto download code off some random website and execute it. Naive we all were back then...

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