PWAs etc. are still "in the browser" for most practical purposes. My problem with what's happening with Fugu, as I said in (much later) tweets in the original thread, is that so many of the classes of apps are unlikely to account for more than a very small % of user time.
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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Those adjacent things are often disjoint! Adding `getUserMedia()` didn't enable better RSS reading. And so what? It *did* enable whole classes of apps that otherwise wouldn't have been on the web *in general*. And the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts.
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