> Could we please just fix native software development, so it doesn't suck, rather than adding the kitchen sink to web browsers?
People have been trying to fix native software development forever, from the JVM to electron. But the web remains the only open platform for distributing software that works on every device. Fixing native software development will eventually mean making the web native, so that your OS is just a browser.
> Making it possible for news websites to touch ethernet/usb/serial/gpu compromises that.
There's a simple and obvious solution for that, which is to make them ask for permission, just like with desktop notifications.
> Same goes for optimizations ilke JIT'ing and WebAssembly which have certainly done a great job making it possible for Gawker to reprogram the microcode in AMD K8 CPUs.
What kind of argument is this? Someone who doesn't need a technology uses it anyway, so ... it's worthless?
People have been trying to fix native software development forever, from the JVM to electron. But the web remains the only open platform for distributing software that works on every device. Fixing native software development will eventually mean making the web native, so that your OS is just a browser.
> Making it possible for news websites to touch ethernet/usb/serial/gpu compromises that.
There's a simple and obvious solution for that, which is to make them ask for permission, just like with desktop notifications.
> Same goes for optimizations ilke JIT'ing and WebAssembly which have certainly done a great job making it possible for Gawker to reprogram the microcode in AMD K8 CPUs.
What kind of argument is this? Someone who doesn't need a technology uses it anyway, so ... it's worthless?