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> It invented the entire concept of web apps as desktop apps

Mozilla actually had that in early 2000 or so; their whole UI (before Firefox existed, even) was a webby. Except it was their own weird sort of webby and not normal HTML, most of the time.

Using normal HTML would be around IE4 with their .hta files, I think. Didn't seem to have too much uptake though.



Fair! Maybe I should've said "got web apps as desktop apps to finally take off"




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