Yeah, I'm not saying web is there - we added a bunch of APIs to gecko for Firefox OS, for Instagram like apps.
you might be forgetting some things that happened in between...
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Point is, native gave us a flexible tool, web gave us more restrictive tools.
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the web is quite flexible, and native is stone tablets every year
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Like playing video formats that browser vendors have not provided support for.
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the web has been able to do that one since the 90s... netflix and youtube wouldn't exist
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With the assistance of flash/silverlight, which exist to dodge lack of web support for things.
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seems suspicious to call tech used by YouTube/Netflix "lack of web support"
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Plugins are kind of an escape hatch, especially with the install barrier.
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Flash pretty much everywhere on desktop; as you point out, Unity is native on evergreen
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A simplification, sure, but this is Twitter.
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