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Re:The Line of Death (2017) by fluoridation on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:12PM (#30724060)
While I think stuff like Google Docs is practically magic, I agree. I think it'd be a net positive if it wasn't possible to do stuff like that on a browser.

Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned out if Java plugins hadn't been security Swiss cheese.

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Re:The Line of Death (2017) by DarraghBurke on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:45PM (#30725246)
Would it better for the majority of applications to be native apps that run outside a sandbox with full access to the filesystem?

The browser actually gives us more security.

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Re:The Line of Death (2017) by fluoridation on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:52PM (#30728014)
There's no reason why applets couldn't have been sandboxed as much as any browser scripting. If they had taken the role JS now occupies, we might have seen that development.
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