alt Hacker News> The browser ... wasn’t architected to run applications.
Could you explain this? What prevents the browser from running applications? How should it have been architected otherwise if running applications was the goal?
> The browser ... wasn’t architected to run applications.
Could you explain this? What prevents the browser from running applications? How should it have been architected otherwise if running applications was the goal?
I think the idea here is that the DOM was designed as a model for document presentation, not for GUI layout.