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quite a blanket statement both for web and desktop apps... some are fast some are slow on both platforms, no?

• jcelerier 5y ago
  the immense majority of my experience on the web is slow, and on the non-web is fast, it's definitely not 50/50. I wouldn't be able to give you the name of a slow desktop app I use actually.
  • altcognito 5y ago
    It’s never about the UI, it’s what it’s trying to do before it renders. Oracle on the desktop? Slow. Heck, grep is “slow” by this definition. The web renders quite quick if you serve the content quickly. Even when the possibility of fast is there, companies like Apple and Microsoft overlay things with animations because it is “too jarring”
• altcognito 5y ago
  It’s a blanket statement because the time to render a standards based user interface is very small. Once we bring in the latency of the internet, (or on the desktop side, database or any other networked resource) all bets are off. It makes sense for Google to make this change. Why should I care anyway? Its not like anybody has cared about open document formats in this space anyway. This never was and never will be an open platform. I find it frustrating because this is just another nail in the coffin for open documents.