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Mozilla on Monday was the first to make an official announcement, but the developers of Chrome, Edge and WebKit (the layout engine used by Apple's Safari) said they plan on doing the same.
AppCache is an HTML5 application caching mechanism that allows website developers to specify which resources should be available offline. This improves speed, reduces server load, and enables users to browse a site even when they are offline.
While application caching has some benefits, it can also introduce serious security risks, which is partly why it has been deprecated and its use is no longer recommended.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/major-browser-vendors-restrict-appcache-secure-connections
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday February 15 2018, @05:55AM (1 child)
Would you prefer having to buy a different operating system or a different brand of computer in order to run an application? Even if you get source code, source code designed for Win32 or Cocoa API might not compile, link, and run correctly on a GNU/Linux box.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @07:55AM
I'd prefer it if programmers stopped writing shitty unportable programs altogether. Ideally, people would stop writing programs for proprietary operating systems as well. If a program wouldn't exist if there were no web "apps", then good riddance to bad rubbish.