Comment by Spivak
9 years ago
But when everything is pushed to the web the same argument applies to your browser.
> Why do I need a web app, tens of millions of lines of code, a website with massive permissions to my browser.
> To read a news article?
> ...
Because the web app is portable across OS'es to start with.
A lot of the time web apps aren't even portable across different browsers...so...YMMV in regards to the whole portability thing.
> A lot of the time
That was the case in the 90s, and hasn't been the case since. "Some times, that are so rare that people point to it and comment on it on forums", yes.
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