Comment by PaulHoule

What's "progressive" about installing software?

It's always saddened me that people failed to understand the web platform, and never more so than today when that platform could be on the verge of extinction.

Young people don't remember this: in the 1990s if a big corporation wanted to make a 1-line change to an application deployed to a fleet of desktops they'd have to update every single machine and to do so they'd probably have to hire at least 1 FTE and probably more for installer engineering and other makework.

With the web it is often

   git pull

on the server and you're done!

As it is I can find web sites with search, links from other sites, bookmarks and history. If you "install" applications you just clutter up your desktop with 300 icons for applications you don't really use which makes it hard to find the 2-3 that you really use.