"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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"the offline version" This... is a really good point. Works for a lot of web apps indeed. Having the browser do a lot of the work for us allowed to have more lightweight applications. Thanks for the nice talk! Now that I see the global pov, I'll think again about this.
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also, browsers can directly support accessibility tools (like screen readers); big companies tend to support those in native applications too, but most other vendors don't bother
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