1 Jun
2017
1 Jun
'17
7:27 a.m.
The other thing is the j-word. Any language that needs the likes of CoffeeScript or Typescript to impose sanity on it was an unfortunate language to end up being the one built into browsers.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Wed, 31 May 2017, at 09:19 PM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
> Today's Browsers follow standard
>
> https://caniuse.com/
>
> Thierry Nivelet
> http://foxincloud.com/
> Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud
>
> > Le 31 mai 2017 à 21:30, Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net a écrit :
> >
> > At 07:55 2017-05-30, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 30 May 2017, at 12:05 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > > In 2017, how many users are looking for desktop apps?
> >> > >
> >> > > Still plenty.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > Seriously?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Seriously. Anything that needs any sort of meaningful interaction with a
> >> local file system or devices, or a rich UI for example.
> >
> > 1) Snappiness, too.
> >
> > 2) The UI limitations of browsers are a bother. Oh, yes, there are some solutions, but unfortunately, there is no standard. And many of the richer features require security compromises.
> >
> > 3) When something fails, is it due to a bug? A wrong browser version? Security blocking? It is much simpler when only one thing can fail.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Gene Wirchenko
> >
> >
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