> Do you really not see any of these as advantages, at all?
I can see how they would be an advantage to some, but a detriment to others. I don't find any of these things to be enough of an advantage to outweigh the advantages of having it in browser.
> You don't use a task bar on your computer?
Nope.
> You would never want to be able to alt-tab to a programming IDE or music player?
Having these in browser means 1 less window to keep on the desktop taking up space so I don't need to alt-tab as much. I can see both my IDE and my browser at the same time.
> [ .. Atom, more interactive app section ...]
I don't use Atom or VSCode (electron-based editors) so this isn't an issue for me. But I can totally see wanting these to be as native as possible, so using them that way makes sense. So I'll 100% concede the point for code editors.
For data I use Firefox containers to keep that things compartmentalized sufficiently so there to no need to worry about polluting local data stores.
I can see how they would be an advantage to some, but a detriment to others. I don't find any of these things to be enough of an advantage to outweigh the advantages of having it in browser.
> You don't use a task bar on your computer?
Nope.
> You would never want to be able to alt-tab to a programming IDE or music player?
Having these in browser means 1 less window to keep on the desktop taking up space so I don't need to alt-tab as much. I can see both my IDE and my browser at the same time.
> [ .. Atom, more interactive app section ...]
I don't use Atom or VSCode (electron-based editors) so this isn't an issue for me. But I can totally see wanting these to be as native as possible, so using them that way makes sense. So I'll 100% concede the point for code editors.
For data I use Firefox containers to keep that things compartmentalized sufficiently so there to no need to worry about polluting local data stores.