Comments on: Windows and Web-based Software https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/10/26/windows-and-web/ Reflections on Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: sward https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/10/26/windows-and-web/comment-page-1/#comment-5368 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:33:34 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/10/26/windows-and-web/#comment-5368 Ick, as much as I like the possibility of the weakening of Microsoft’s monopoly, I hate browser-based applications. Web-based apps are fine, but the notion that everything has to be done in a web-browser because it’s easily portable or similar makes me want to throw up. Is the browser our operating system / desktop environment now?

Instead, we should be looking at portable frameworks. One recently popular effort already exists, Mono. I feel it has the wrong aims though — essentially to be .Net. It should leave those aims behind, let it diverge, and evolve free from the shackles that hold it down. Proponents like to think that it will get to a point where they will create something, and .Net will follow. I don’t believe that will happen, and I believe once they do something over .Net, they will either be breaking their aim anyway, or struggling to keep compatible with .Net, making it a bunch of ugly kludges.

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