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0 pointspjmlp13y ago0 comments

It is called the desktop.

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dasil00313y ago· 2 in thread

No. The desktop is not cross-platform, cross-media and installation free. Your flippant dismissal of the real advances that the web brought to common computing renders your opinion moot.

pjmlpOP13y ago

Neither is the web.

As consultant, part of my job is to do web applications when the customers demand it, and web development is everything but cross-platform.

The amount of hacks one has to write to have CSS, JavaScript and HTML working flawlessly across all desired operating systems, browser versions and handsets renders the cross-platform argument moot.

As for installation free, the same is possible with the desktop applications as well.

dasil00313y ago

There's never been anything in the history of computing that is 10% as cross-platform and cross-media as the web. Your head is firmly embedded in the sand my friend.

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