WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android
I feel weird about what's happening in the browser.<p>I can't put my finger on it, but something seems off...<p>We're moving towards an operating system on top of an operating system (browser)...<p>And now, node.js and other runtimes, in the browser, on top of that.<p>I'm hoping we can flatten this at some point...<p>It seems like the core problem is that:<p>1. Operating system vendors have failed to provide UI SDKs that beat HTML & CSS (plus browser APIs for modification of that HTML and CSS).<p>2. Operating system vendors have failed to have such a UI SDK work cross-platform across operating systems.<p>3. Operating system vendor UI SDKs do not allow UI to be bootstrapped dynamically (e.g. retrieved dynamically over the web) and built-up in code via APIs as simple as browser APIs.<p>4. A failure in open distribution and discovery of apps.<p>Am I wrong?<p>Is this direction in computing a failure of OS vendors to get together and solve this problem?<p>This seems like a source of sudden disruption some day...<p>I feel like one day Microsoft is going to wake up to find they're not needed anymore.