• From: Sean McGrath <digitome@i...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:41:10 +0000

[Len Bullard]
>
>The day of the web browser as portable operating system is drawing to a 
>close.
>
Amen. I see an increasing number of innovative Web apps in which
the browser is the "viewer" as distinct from the app that is
doing the real work.

I think it is interesting to ponder why this is so.
My (controversial of course) view on this
is that the Web client-side programming model of an
embedded, sand-boxed, buggy,
antithesis-of-a-text-processing-language has finally
run its course.

regards,

Sean,




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