- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:53:57 -0500
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 at gmail.com> wrote: > The solution to that problem would be > improved package management, not masquerading applications as web > pages. Isn't masquerading applications as web pages the entire point of HTML5 (originally "Web Applications 1.0") and the WHATWG ("Web Hypertext Applications Working Group")? > If I understand you correctly, your applet is OS and arch-dependant, and > depends on a JRE and a web browser. Why not just use the JRE? Well, it's non-standard and more or less proprietary (given Oracle's lawsuit against Google). So the question we should be asking here is, why *would* you use Java or Flash instead of HTML5, and how can we fix that? In this case, I think we have bigger fish to fry for the time being, but some sort of peripheral driver interface for web apps would be a good idea to have eventually. At least Chrome OS will certainly need it.
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