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Comment by founderling | Hacker News Reader

    If you want to build programs, it's not as convenient any more.

Strange, my experience is the other way round. The browser is the most convenient platform I ever targeted.

Can you express this in a code example? Actual code that shows what is hard to do in HTML+CSS+JS and easier on another platform?

Well, it's 1am here and I can't really be bothered to get into this too deeply, but here's one for you:

How would you implement Netflix without using external plugins such as Silverlight?

You need to be a little more specific than that.

What particular feature does Netflix have that e.g. YouTube doesn't, that wouldn't be possible without a plugin?

     How would you implement Netflix without using
     external plugins such as Silverlight?

Upon first inspection this does not look like a code example to me, but rather like a question in english language?

I have no knowledge about Netflix, so I don't know what the technical aspect of the question is. A code example would make it clear.