> I would love to have the browser be a local "application server" on the desktop
Back in the days we called that a WebView.
And when MS made one with MSIE and used that in Windows, we sent the EU after them.
How times change, eh?
Back in the days we called that a WebView.
And when MS made one with MSIE and used that in Windows, we sent the EU after them.
How times change, eh?
That was because they were a monopoly (among several other reasons, such as "bundling", threatening OEMs and so on).
Not because they offered webviews (which was totally irrelevant).
> How times change, eh?
That was a very short story.
Mine is a bit longer and includes MS intentionally crippling HTML if their servers sniffed Opera headers.
Edit: Google employees here, -please remind your bosses and colleagues what happened last someone abused their position to dominate the browser market.
They got rich(er) and crippled competition for years to come?
But then again, I know nothing. This is just a feeling I have.
[0]: Yes, and I think they also got the message loud and clear that this would just be a start unless they started behaving
[1]: not saying they are saints yet, but as a nix user out in the trenches I very much prefer the current Microsoft.
Edit: What I more specifically had in mind was Firefox Prism, from circa 2007. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
Why this stuff didn't take / isn't more popular now, I don't really know.
It’s a lot easier to argue that a web browser is an essencial part of an OS this way.
Big difference, sure.