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
Today's Browsers follow standard
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.
Snappiness, too.
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.
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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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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