• icesentry@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    How are browser not that already? What’s missing?

    They are an open standard and used to make many thousands of apps.

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      1 year ago

      I’m thinking more along the line of ubiquitous offline first PWAs. Imagine google doc running offline in a browser and being able to edit local docs directly. I guess secure file system access is one of the major road blocks, though I’m not sure of the challenges associated with coming up with a standard for this.