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mhansen on April 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern Web Development

  Android, instead of making the web a first-class citizen,
  has in fact set the mobile web back by years.

I don't know how you can come to this conclusion. Android has made an excellent mobile web browser available to over a quarter of a billion people.

And how is the web not first-class? Google even started Web Intents to interoperate web apps with native apps.

darklajid on April 24, 2012 [–]

You seem to expect different things than the GP (and me).

A browser without decent SNI support, with broken XPATH support and really various shortcomings was outdated when it came out - and neglected afterwards.

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