{"id":54,"date":"2010-12-10T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-12-10T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:17:37","slug":"computers-i-want-to-be-browser-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/computers-i-want-to-be-browser-based\/","title":{"rendered":"computers: I want to be browser-based"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s ChromeOS \u201cnothing but web\u201d replacement for the heavyweight PC environment is nearing release, though overshadowed by Android’s unstoppable rise for smart phones and tablets and Google TV. I wish Firefox and the Linux distributions would proceed with similar initiatives. As I wrote regarding Google’s announcement of a pilot program involving their own-brand notebook<\/a> :<\/p>\n

I’d love to run even more stuff in the browser. I hate that I access most resources through bookmarks and the browser’s smart location field, but other resources I have to go through the GUI toolkit’s file “browser”, and then launch external apps that usually lack all the browser’s niceties (View Source, Ctrl-+ to zoom, bookmarks\/back\/forward\/history, tabs, etc.). Browser-based doesn’t<\/em> mean using the cloud for all my files; browsers don’t care if they load resources from http or file:\/\/\/ URLs. ChromeOS has a Content View<\/a> to show you local files, supposedly integrated with the Open\/Save dialog; I wish Firefox Places had a directory view along with its bookmarks and history view. I don’t want Firefox to integrate with my Linux desktop toolkit’s crappy file handling and half-hearted semantic efforts, I want Firefox to subsume<\/em> them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Desktop loyalists complain that this is a stupid idea. But what’s left that doesn’t<\/em> run in a browser?<\/p>\n