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- Documents are self contained, standardized and shareable (i.e. load and save) instead of locked in to a single cloud app. - See more than 20-30 items at a ti
by cotelletta 7y ago
- Documents are self contained, standardized and shareable (i.e. load and save) instead of locked in to a single cloud app.
- See more than 20-30 items at a time, just scroll through. Reorder every table and list at will.
- Customize toolbars, inspector windows, layouts and sizes.
- Drag and drop files, snippets, images from one app to another.
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Browser APIs are third rate knock offs of native ones, sandboxed in so you can't do anything interesting. Browser UIs often lack all the basic affordances that used to be the norm. Instead developers now design the UI to support their business model first, putting permanent upsell ads and other visual cancer in there.
Nobody really believes progressive web apps can replace the desktop or the app store. Web developers just want you to think so, because that's how they get paid. To make it actually possible they'd have to undo all the lockdowns and background restrictions that were necessarily to make it safe for boomers and normies.