Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by worik on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:29PM
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> PC's also had an unending stream of viruses
Back in the 1990s,, when I used them, Macs had an "unending stream of viruses" too. DO they not these days? Does windoews still?
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by asveikau on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:28PM
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> PC's also had an unending stream of viruses. I don't want to have to deal with exploits on my phone.
This is a false choice. How many of those viruses existed because you could, as a concept (not as a default), mark a page as executable at runtime? I'm going to say precisely none of them.
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by candiodari on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:44PM
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Android has whichever browser you want, doesn't have an unending stream of viruses, and even allows for piracy through side-loading of apps ... so this is not a necessary measure.
And from a technical standpoint, high performance browsers enabled the world to misuse HTML + JS to create applications, instead of being limited to documents like it was designed to do. As a developer, building native applications is a lot more fun trying to coerce the browser into doing what I want, because the underlying design actually does what you need it to. Unless "native" means "Windows", though, that has always been painful unless you use something like Qt.