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		cgrealy on March 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The decline and fall of Java on the desktop It's a game. It's UI is full screen and completely divorced from "standard" UI elements (WIMP, etc). You can call it a desktop app, and you'd be correct in the most pedantic sense, but then every web app is also a desktop app since you run it on a desktop.

mellinoe on March 2, 2022 [–]

Chrome the browser is a desktop application, websites you visit in it are not.

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