Re: Delphi - desktop, Web, or USB?

There is a thing I do not understand at all.
Why had not Microsoft offered us the possibility to install seamlessly
applets, applications etc., downloaded from the internet, into a sandbox
which would limit privileges of such applications to a minimum but which
could be elevated by the user as needed ? Something like ActiveX but more
secure ? Having access to only one directory instead of the whole filesystem
?
It would surely limit the proliferation of pseudo-applications "running in
the browser" but coded in some interpreted sort-of-a-language and using
libraries which are becoming bigger and bigger and bigger ....
I am sorry but I cannot see any progress in developing applications this
way.
Huuuge operating system used to run only one huuuge application serving as a
pseudo-operating system and making run other applications (coded in crappy
interpreted languages) ....
Total nonsense if you ask me.


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are completely unnecessary - all you need is a Web browser and an
ultra-light kernel to host it on - something to look after the screen,
keyboard and mouse clicks. Everything else can be done from within the
browser, using Java to provide the programmatic stuff (or use some

People have been declaring the death of the operating system since
netscape came out. Look where netscape is now.

In order to have all the necessary functionality to handle all the types
of apps people want to run, such browser environments would have to be,
for all practical purposes, operating systems themselves. Think about
it - all the networking, video, sound, input, storage functionality would
need to be in there. Once all thats in there, you're just basically
arguing about semantics - the browser is no longer a browser, but a
de-facto OS itself. Or an OS layer running on top of a kernel (like most
modern OS's).

And... keep in mind... these browser apps need to be stored somewhere.
Which implies the need for other servers online to serve them up.
Something has to run those servers...

My personal suspicion is that a lot (not all, but a good deal) of the
original purpose behind the whole 'the browser is the future' movement is
just a carryover of the anti-MS movement. People saw netscape as -
'finally' - a potential rival for MS, and started pushing the idea of
everything being run in a browser as a means of breaking their 'monopoly'.
Ie, the reasons were political and business-related, not technical
superiority, for pushing the idea.





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