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The Crappy Side Of Geek&Poke

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March 15, 2011

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Brower... I think browser was the word you intended to put there... am i wrong?

Guess you wanted to say "Browser" not "Brower"... ;-)

Brower?! Se-da-give?!?!?!?

It may sound like a joke, but the browser is actually a quite good candidate for an application that should be moved to the cloud.

There are lots of webapplications you can use from your browser. These store a lot of state. Major data can be saved, but many webapps have state that cannot be saved.

Every time you restart your browser, you would lose all of that state. And the amount of memory a browser need in order to maintain a lot of tabs is more than many smaller client machines have.

It would be possible to write a complete browser as a webapp that you could connect to with another browser, and have that webapp maintain a number of tabs that you have open in it with other pages/applications.

It would probably only be something power users would want to use. The average user would probably get too confused by the browser inside a browser, and would probably also not be using enough tabs simultaneously to make the resource usage a concern.

Some examples of a browser as a webapp have been done already. For example there exists a website with a Windows 3.11 lookalike implementing most of the UI in javascript, and it has a browser. But not a fullblown implementation as it leaves most of the work to the user's actual browser, and suffers some limitations due to that fact.

By the way, what's the font you are using for lettering?
The closest one is comic sans but yours is slightly different..

The idea is not so ridiculous after all... Isn't it some kind of "browser on the cloud" the preprocessing on Opera servers when using Opera Mini?

Sorry, but... no more! Look at here, enjoy ;)

http://bbrepository.tumblr.com/post/3897109627/jolicloud

The user's brain will be sent to the cloud soon.

And now Amazon did it with Silk!

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