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Re:Just launched! Asking for news.yc feedback. by tx on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @12:41PM (#62641)
80% of browser functionality is written in JavaScript, very similarly to how Mozilla's XUL is done, greatly reducing our dependency on any client platform.

But we are Windows-only at the moment with Mac OS X in the very near future. We are also debating either we should move to Mozilla platform, but it potentially will make a fairly fat download... Currently our browser is 400kb binary with zero dependencies.

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Re:Just launched! Asking for news.yc feedback. by nickb on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @02:06PM (#62679)
Good stuff!!!

I'd move over to FF base and you have all OS' covered. If you have to install a binary, people don't care if it's 400kb or 2Mb. Size, under 10Mb is irrelevant to most of the people. Usability and compatibility is what's important.

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Re:Just launched! Asking for news.yc feedback. by derefr on Thursday October 04, 2007 @03:08PM (#63151)
Could you put up an interactive demo with said 80% of the functionality, just running in your browser? It wouldn't have to do all the "shell sandboxing" that the full client does; it's for the parents, not the kids.
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