Subj : Re: Zoom anyone?
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Borax Man
Date : Sat May 02 2020 12:34 pm

-=> Richard Menedetter wrote to Borax Man <=-

 RM> Hi Borax!

 RM> 02 May 2020 19:31, from Borax Man -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> You can also use the WebRTC Browser version without any
 RM>> additional software. Security wise Jitsi makes much more sense.
 BM> WebRTC is an API?  Seems there is browser support.

 RM> yes
 RM> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

 BM> Having browsers as all-purpose software platforms is really an abuse
 BM> of the browser.

 RM> I completely disagree.
 RM> It is not ABuse but intelligent USE!

They were never designed to be application platforms.  That is why browsers
take gigabytes of ram and need modern computers.  All that functionality has to
be put into every browser, even if someone just wants to render plain HTML.

 BM> Curses to the man who man who thought you could use
 BM> the web to create apps!

 RM> Why curse that genius?

Because it solved the wrong problem.  The problem was cross platform graphical
apps.  Browsers were abused to provide this, then we had bloat as all this
added functionality had to be added in.  Thankfully with mobiles, we are seeing
proper dedicated
"apps",  specific front ends with clear APIs, which is how it should have been
in the first place.  That is, you have a well documented API, and anyone can
write any program using it.

Why reinvent a graphical interface, when the OS already has one?
 RM> CU, Ricsi

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