Hello colleague, On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 4:32:56 PM UTC+1, Samuel Colvin wrote: > > I've just read you post and done a double take. > > You're suggesting in the medium term future that the only browsers > available will either not be able to execute js or won't have a rendering > engine? Seriously? > > No. I'm pretty sure, that browsers will be available and somehow able to display stuff in windows or tabs on multiple platforms. However this is not the first time i observe that people say 'this cannot cause a problem' and later on it does.
My favorite recent example is a markdown-preview plug-in, that works perfectly using a web API but seems to have some problems with a missing internet connection ... and how can you ever run today a computer without internet connection? Well, for us working in companies with some respect for security topics, we might experience some filtering along that way. There is a reason, why on this list questions how to get git configured to tunnel everything via http show up. The decision of julia to use git as package transfer and github as central is also a dependency. You are right in the sense, that JS+SVG might be today a dependency that can be very easily fullfilled. Still it's a dependency.
