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As for using browser technologies as desktop applications GUI, apparently, browser manufacturers do not want that to happen. In fact, they do not want that developers and users interface the browser with their local machine. I personally suspect that this technological lock-in imposed to web users by browser manufacturers in the name of security (sandbox) is in fact a commercial strategy that is at the origin of the "cloud" platform. Big money is made by cloud enterprises just because users can not use their local machine with web technology, so that they push them to put all their documents and information in the cloud, instead of just using the local machine from the browser. Google wants to appear as the good guy and has initiated the PWA patterns, but it is clearly a way to diminish the frustration of developers, and remains a very limited and incomplete approach diluted in time. Also, strangely, Firefox presently seems to actively unpromote the use of HTML UI and browser technology for building desktop applications (no Filesystem Access Api, no installation of PWA, no standalone GUI mode, etc)... One could think that an open-source browser like Firefox which supposedly has no financial interest in preventing the users to interface with their local machine from within the browser would work to remove the limitations between the browser and the local machine, but in fact it happens that they are amongst the ones who in the recent years actively unpromote the development of features removing those limitations. Perhaps donators to the Mozilla Foundation also happen to be cloud entreprenors or companies ? Yes, indeed... according to wikipedia, "In 2006, the Mozilla Foundation received US$66.8 million in revenues, of which US$61.5 million is attributed to "search royalties" from Google"... Presently, I can now clearly picture, in the name of an imaginary "security", a big conspiration of browser manufacturers against web developers and web users so that they could not interface with their local machine from the web platform, a conspiration built over the years through vested interests contradictory to the neutrality and freedom of the internet. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/481#issuecomment-808913840
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