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I'm not sure I agree - I put a lot of effort keeping as few desktop icons visible as possible, I like the cleaner interface. On my work desktop, I have one icon
by grahamburger 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree - I put a lot of effort keeping as few desktop icons visible as possible, I like the cleaner interface. On my work desktop, I have one icon - my browser. There are a few other pieces of software I use, but I navigate the menu or hit alt-F2 to find them. When HTML5 becomes ubiquitous, I will probably very rarely use the app store. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I doubt I'm completely alone.
For me, a browser with my most often visited sites (whether they be html5 'apps' or otherwise) and bookmarks on the launch page would be a more natural extension of how I use the device.
- Flemlord 16y agoI was speaking from the perspective of devices, namely phones. The way to launch apps is by clicking a "desktop" icon. More broadly stated, you need a way to hook into the local environment so that HTML5 sites aren't distinguishable from locally-run/stored apps.
- grahamburger 16y agoThat does make sense. What I'm saying is that the way I currently use my desktop is mostly for web based apps which don't have any local hook (other than the browser itself) and that when I can do the same thing on my phone, I will. For me, the lack of a local hook outside of the browser doesn't detract from the experience or my productivity, and in fact makes it easier to find the local apps that I do have, because I don't have to scroll through all of the hooks to the web apps.