"in the browser" may not literally mean "in the browser" -- nobody wants to type a URL on a mobile phone -- hence PWAs. Fugu fills out the general PWA approach for more classes of app. It's all of a piece.
Every metaplatfrom naturally expands to provide capabilities developers need and that is available on *most* hardware and *most* OSes -- or that metaplatform dies.
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The web is not immune to this effect! If the capabilities that most computers expose continue to march on, but the web does not, developers would be fools to bet on us. We'd let them down eventually if we aren't a good partner.
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This brings us to adjacency: most apps spend most of their time and code handling events and drawing boxes & text. But that isn't what they *do*. They often do something *adjacent* to text and box drawing that defines what the app "is".
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When in the past ~30 years did the web die?
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