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I think the difficulty is that none of the technologies that you are using were designed for building software applications, but for showing text and images on
by blub 15y ago
I think the difficulty is that none of the technologies that you are using were designed for building software applications, but for showing text and images on a screen.
In other words, there is a perfectly fine solution for offline G-mail, it's called "e-mail client".
- jorangreef 15y agoActually the problem may be that OS user interfaces, for all their native functionality, have not kept pace with browsers at showing text and images on a screen. Hypertext is an innovation that is hard to ignore.
- blub 15y agoNative UI is vastly more powerful compared to HTML and CSS, which were designed to display web pages, not widgets and controls. In fact I don't understand what kind of experience you have to say something like that. If you were a web designer you would know that the web UI is a painful to use hack. If you were a mobile/desktop developmer you would know that both types of UIs are better at showing pretty much anything on a screen - including a browser engine.