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A line-of-business application where I work was recently upgraded to be responsive with a number of useful client-side JavaScript features added. Nobody in thei

A line-of-business application where I work was recently upgraded to be responsive with a number of useful client-side JavaScript features added. Nobody in their right mind would use it on a mobile device but it's nice to be able to resize the browser window instead of dedicating one monitor to it. And the JS library they're using for the dozens of large data tables in the system is so much more pleasant to use than the ad-hoc server side filtering and sorting they had before. I can't think of a thing they did that seems frivolous, except maybe dropping the Internet Explorer requirement, and I'm not complaining about that either. ;-)

lenkite 7y ago
The problem is that this is a rarity. Most "modern" web-apps are worse than their traditional desktop app replacements. It is not as if developers are worse today. It is because traditional desktop applications can build upon better frameworks, leverage better tested accessibility, compose and extend native and rich UI controls offered by the OS and all of which leads to better developer productivity and comfortable user experience. Yes, you can do all that with JSS and CSS also. However you have to fight extreme CSS and JS bloat in order to achieve the same thing. I really want the browser vendors to offer a large suite of standardised, modern web controls. UX Designers who love to do their own snarky, edgy stuff can keep doing so, but for us developers it would be a god-send for our sanity.