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For me the biggest problem with web apps in a browser are keyboard shortcuts. E.g.: does Cmd+P print the webpage or the contents of the edited document? Electro
by yoz-y 10y ago
For me the biggest problem with web apps in a browser are keyboard shortcuts. E.g.: does Cmd+P print the webpage or the contents of the edited document? Electron applications solve this problem. In the end it is important to stuff the stuff requiring performance into a native module and you are set. Having worked with JNI I prefer writing Node plugins and writing interfaces in HTML5 is great compared to stuff like Gtk (and even Qt)
- rictic 10y agoAn author can use print stylesheets to make cmd-P work as expected. Try it out in google docs for example.
- yoz-y 10y agoYes. But the shortcuts are not consistent between different web-applications. Inconsistency is he death for muscle memory. Also simple copying and pasting is not always doing what I think (e.g.: in Google docs) (it is partly my fault as I prefer safari and they did not have yet implemented all of the necessary APIs to make it work). Another advantage of Electron apps is that they do not have a concept of back and forward by default. There is no losing work in a text editor because one has unfocused the text field and pressed backspace