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Since when you need a web browser to display content? Slack could easily use native widgets, without embedding any HTML.
by zakk 9y ago
Since when you need a web browser to display content?
Slack could easily use native widgets, without embedding any HTML.
- outworlder 9y agoHave you used Slack? The rich interface is one of the main reasons people use it. It's not IRC.
- Rjevski 9y agoI feel like I've made a mistake mentioning IRC - that was just an example to say that a client that receives and sends messages over the network was a solved problem. Rich interface doesn't mean HTML and CSS. Have you seen good iOS apps? Their interface is just as rich and yet it's pure Swift/Objective-C compiled down to native code.
- zakk 9y agoYes I have, and I have used interfaces which were as rich, or even richer, for decades, without the need of embedding web content. For instance GTK apps in the earlies 2000s were easily displaying content as rich.
- outworlder 9y agoI understand that. But we also have apps like Adium displaying their chat messages using HTML with no issues, just because they want to easily customize the themes. Point is, native or not native, this should not matter for a well optimized code. We are not talking about a AAA game here, it's just a chat app. It should not be burning cycles when inactive.
- jsjohnst 9y agoThere are plenty of chat apps with rich interfaces not implemented in HTML. Some of them far better than Slack.
- outworlder 9y agoCan you provide some examples?
- gaadd33 9y agoMessages on OS X?