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Re:Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps i... by dijit on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#37321692)
too slow for native apps.

Read that again to yourself, slowly.

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Re:Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps i... by xnickb on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:44AM (#37322060)
A concept of thin clients is of course completely unthinkable in this context.
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Re:Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps i... by dijit on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:47AM (#37322102)
Thin clients with 2007-era javascript interpreters as the only code execution framework (vs local MACH-O binaries) does seem to be a bit of a weird choice if "slow" was the problem and you intended to have thin clients.
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Re:Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps i... by sznio on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:39AM (#37338920)
There's also a backend. Back in 2007 a web app was mostly backend code that would send you HTML to display, and at worst it would have some AJAX for a chatbox/autoreload.
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