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Exactly this. I would even hazard that the majority of developers are working on things for intranets in a narrow corporate context where, if it can run on non-standard gear, that’s an added liability with no significant business benefit. Businesses are only moving away from their decade old Flash and “IE only” web apps because the marginal security risk combined with maintenance burden has begun to outweigh the costs of new development.


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