Of the web

most web apps are on the web, but not of it. This seems right to me, and I suspect web instigators like Tim Berners-Lee would agree. The odd thing is that, for a while, desktop software did exactly this. Word would save a document in a particular format, and another application written by someone else entirely could open that document. When we moved to the cloud, we signed up for a computing environment that was as much about siloing and isolation as much as it was about ease of access and maintenance.