I think it's the inner-platform effect [1] in action. Now that the flexibility t...

0xcde4c3db on Feb 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is Indemnification?

I think it's the inner-platform effect [1] in action. Now that the flexibility to do so exists, a lot of modern websites seem to be incrementally recreating the web browser inside the web browser.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect