No other successful platform provides all of these today and others that could are too small to matter.
Platforms like Android and Flutter deliver subsets of these properties but capitulate to capture by the host OS agenda, allowing their developers to be taxed through app stores and proprietary API lock-in. Most treat user mediation like a bug to be fixed.
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The DOM seems critical to the user mediation goal, and user mediation is IMO a critical differentiator with other platforms.
E.g. the web would be way less cool if I couldn't have "reader mode".
Maybe the root problems are HTML and its browsers. Or more exactly: the fact HTML is about documents. Everything done to make apps from it are hacks.
What would be really needed is an open application format standard and a protocol to share it and maybe interact with it. And open source clients able to run those applications.
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As I see it, the web is the only generational software platform that has a reasonable shot at delivering a potent set of benefits to users:
- Fresh
- Frictionless
- Safe by default
- Portable and interoperable
- Gatekeeper-free (no prior restraint on publication)
- Standards-based, and therefore...
- User-mediated (extensions, browser settings, etc.)
- Open Source compatible
No other successful platform provides all of these today and others that could are too small to matter.
Platforms like Android and Flutter deliver subsets of these properties but capitulate to capture by the host OS agenda, allowing their developers to be taxed through app stores and proprietary API lock-in. Most treat user mediation like a bug to be fixed.
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The DOM seems critical to the user mediation goal, and user mediation is IMO a critical differentiator with other platforms.
E.g. the web would be way less cool if I couldn't have "reader mode".