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What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?
by rimantas 10y ago
What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?
- psadauskas 10y agoI disagree with that very strongly. I don't want to have to install 100+ desktop apps (and hope they're available for my OS, and up-to-date) to be able to use every service I interact with. If GMail, GCalendar, HN, GitHub, CircleCI, Google Docs, Slack, and every other web application I use every day were not in a browser, the world would be a much worse place. But all of those applications are built upon that pile of hacks, and much harder to write an maintain than they should be.
- csallen 10y agoI think we've learned the exact opposite of that in the past 20 years.
- dwaltrip 10y agoWhy would you say that? The browser has become the most successful app platform ever built.
- EliRivers 10y agoI would have said Windows was the most successful app platform ever built.
- kkarakk 10y agokeyword is was. no one is excited about making innovative windows apps, it's a way to get your thing out to everyone but with all the traditional blocks(users have to find and install, different configurations might mess up your app etc)