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demizer | 1 year ago

A web browser that has all the shit the big tech companies added to make it hard to create a good web browser would be a good start. A web browser does not need webgl or wasm. I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.

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aitchnyu|1 year ago

I work for a solar CAD+CRUD app that runs in browser. WebGL is more than fun stuff. Wasm is becoming The Way to run applications in a portable way in servers.

userbinator|1 year ago

I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.

The most infuriating part is that this is perfectly doable with 90s web technology. Even encryption was already available in the form of SSL, and that's arguably the only thing which has improved since then. The majority of technological "progress" has merely been the reinvention of existing technology in more inefficient ways.

pjmlp|1 year ago

In the 90's many banks would make you install a variant of Java applet, ActiveX or Flash, to log into their systems.

In the name of a "better experience".

I know, because that is exactly what many of our customers did on the agency I worked during those days.