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0 pointsfreehunter11y ago0 comments

And another proprietary service ("make it an offline Chrome app"). It's the web, why would I want to be locked to a single vendor?

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drvortex11y ago

It is the path of least resistance to get to a 'Desktop' experience. And please, what are the alternatives?

Firefox ? I'm sorry, but Firefox lost relevance a couple of years ago now. Firefox is ethically the best , but it sucks in implementation. Firefox is now the broccoli of the web, stale broccoli at that.

freehunterOP11y ago

ActiveX is pretty cool, and gives you a "desktop" experience. You should look into it if you like letting one corporation lock you into their proprietary version of the web.

findjashua11y ago

a desktop app built with node-webkit would be better than a browser-specific app

vidarh11y ago

How? All you're proposing is replacing one dependency with another.

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