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Because I can build my application once and it works everywhere (mostly). Because I can update it whenever I want and I don't have to support multiple versions.
by rpedela 10y ago
Because I can build my application once and it works everywhere (mostly). Because I can update it whenever I want and I don't have to support multiple versions. Because there is very little friction for users to use my application, they don't have to manually download or upgrade it.
- kaoD 10y agoThis. This so much. And it's safer for the user. Have you ever tried distributing binaries on the internet? People are very reluctant to run a random binary (and rightly so). Also IMH developer perspective HTML+JS+CSS is surprisingly a not so bad UI toolkit, and React makes the development experience even better. I will always bet on standards and, at least for now, modern web is the standard that I can trust.
- nkassis 10y agoThe value of the browser sandbox is often dismissed but it's doing a great job at allowing people to run untrusted code from the web without much thought behind it. I also strongly believe users are much more willing to try websites than download entire app anyways just to see if it's any good.
- xj9 10y agoNone of those things are tied directly to web technologies.
- bastawhiz 10y agoWhich other platform truly allows you to write software once and deploy it seamlessly to just about every kind of desktop and mobile device in the world?
- xj9 10y agoThe browser has a great deployment story and incredible market penetration, I agree. However, none of that is because of web technologies. Browsers are special because they are everywhere, not because they are good or because JS+CSS+HTML is a special magic sauce that nobody else can replicate. We can do better.