Tangential, but https://windows93.net/ is by far my favourite take on the “web desktop” concept.
Internet operating systems is a niche subject that I am fascinated with, and I put a list of them on my website. Im going to add OS.js to the list soon.
Here is the list if you want to check it out: https://www.whoisthisjoker.com/jokerlinks/virtualoperatingsy...
[edit] I guess hackernews doesn't support markdown. Edited it to be more readable
If you like desktop environments maybe you'd like to check mine out too as I've spent a ton of time on it.
The open web is dying, and it's those messages that are killing it.
As far as WEI goes, I certainly do not expect Apple to save us considering they've already been happy to implement remote attestation in their platforms and of course, in Safari, in the form of PATs.
Meanwhile, Safari lags on web standards that are actually good, (while still implementing remote attestation in their browsers,) forcing you to test all of your stuff on Safari. I never have to test my stuff on Chrome, because well, Chrome implements every standard I care about that Firefox implements. But with Safari, I never know.
I'm the resident troubleshooting guy for a bunch of people, and it's difficult to express the confusion and anger I get when I have to explain to people that yes, Safari on iOS really, truly still doesn't support WebM or Opus fully. Some people (insanely, imo) believe WebM is somehow evil, but I would love to hear why Opus is evil.
What Google and Chrome are today is vastly different and far worse (IMO) than what Microsoft and Internet Explorer were for the web and internet. Microsoft was also bad for the open web, but they couldn't dream of something as devious as WEI; the technology wasn't even there yet. Meanwhile, Safari is basically hated for the same reasons as IE: You have to test with it to make sure things work (and of course that includes needing to own Apple products to even have the privilege of doing so...)
My problem very specifically is with this messaging: "use Chrome". I mentioned WEI not because remote attestation is evil, but because Google (in this case and in many others) ignored the process, and declared itself the law.
That doesn't mean we're all good, though. Chrome has a lot of advantages by virtue of being a Google product, for casual users, like Chromecast support.
I'm not sure without a dutiful audit that I would trust any of that to be better. Simply, its trading one set of issues for another.