It is a long term evolution. Eventually, application developers will build directly atop the accelerated graphics layers, freeing the browser to be just a basic virtual machine, and leaving HTML rendering to be just another app built atop that machine. But these things take time and there is a lot of legacy cruft that needs to work in the meantime.
Care to elaborate? That is not the direction I pictured at all. The open standards of the web should have the opposite effect, allowing anyone to build a computer that can run the major software offerings of the time.
I do not see it really any different to how web applications are developed today, just throwing out the needless overhead. If your concerns are to be realized, it has probably already happened a long time ago.
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It is a long term evolution. Eventually, application developers will build directly atop the accelerated graphics layers, freeing the browser to be just a basic virtual machine, and leaving HTML rendering to be just another app built atop that machine. But these things take time and there is a lot of legacy cruft that needs to work in the meantime.
Just like native apps, except the end-user no longer has control over anything.
I can't wait.
Care to elaborate? That is not the direction I pictured at all. The open standards of the web should have the opposite effect, allowing anyone to build a computer that can run the major software offerings of the time.
I do not see it really any different to how web applications are developed today, just throwing out the needless overhead. If your concerns are to be realized, it has probably already happened a long time ago.