Amazon and the future of the web

The Kindle Cloud reader only works on Chrome and Safari.

Thats better than only IE and AOL.

~Jeff

@Jeff:

I beg to differ. It's still proprietary lock-in, in the provider's mindset.

Nope Jeff91 is right. By supporting chrome they offer me as a linux user a way to read kindle books on my computer. If it were msie or aol only I would be locked out. It's a stark difference, and I have a hard time believing that you really don't see it.

@herz, if there were a way to use Iron, or even Chromium, I might agree, but both of the permitted browsers have their origins with companies known for their "we ARE going to track you" licenses. As such, they are companies I don't want to know what I'm reading.

I can go to a public library and check out "The Anarchist's Cookbook" with impunity. Many (most?) states in the U.S. won't let that library divulge my checkout record without a search warrant.

I have no such reassurances from either Google or Apple. Their recent behaviors suggest to me that they are quite willing to invade my privacy, and don't really care who obtains the information they gathered without my consent. Hence, I'm not willing to use their browsers.

After seeing what the Readability Project can do for web content, I accept no excuse for failing to use HTML and CSS in the cross-platform manners as they were intended.

And note, I have based none of this on Amazon's behavior. That would be an article in itself, and many electrons have already been spilt on that.