> Adding scripting capabilities was a mistake, so we can avoid it now.
> Instead, you can provide a Geo link to open the location in any client that supports the protocol.
Sorry but as someone old enough to remember when the web was mostly non interactive I vastly prefer the current situation despite its many shortcomings. I want to keep a minimal number of softwares on my computer. I don't want to give a hundred "clients" access to my computer when I can just run JavaScript sandboxed in my browser. If someone sends me a link and tells me it's a cool game he found online I will open it in my browser and have a look but I will not just run random binaries on my computer. Oh, and I like being able to access any website just from my browser on my Linux, instead of hoping that there is a Linux client that isn't 5 years out of date or fiddling with wine to figure out why the windows binary wouldn't run.
I understand why people dislike the web sandbox or having to run a full blown VM for everything, but please understand that this is also what makes the web great. You can run everything and fear nothing.
> Instead, you can provide a Geo link to open the location in any client that supports the protocol.
Sorry but as someone old enough to remember when the web was mostly non interactive I vastly prefer the current situation despite its many shortcomings. I want to keep a minimal number of softwares on my computer. I don't want to give a hundred "clients" access to my computer when I can just run JavaScript sandboxed in my browser. If someone sends me a link and tells me it's a cool game he found online I will open it in my browser and have a look but I will not just run random binaries on my computer. Oh, and I like being able to access any website just from my browser on my Linux, instead of hoping that there is a Linux client that isn't 5 years out of date or fiddling with wine to figure out why the windows binary wouldn't run.
I understand why people dislike the web sandbox or having to run a full blown VM for everything, but please understand that this is also what makes the web great. You can run everything and fear nothing.