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Traditional GUI toolkits are local apps, not streaming content.
by BulgarianIdiot 4y ago
Traditional GUI toolkits are local apps, not streaming content.
- wmf 4y agoThat's true, but so are a lot of SPAs and Electron apps. I don't think downloading the whole app is much of a burden if it makes the UI less janky.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoIn the case of SPA and Electron apps, we have a platform used against its intended purpose and the companies doing the platform, paying for its R&D, simply don't care to optimize it for that side scenario. Downloading an entire site is an existing strategy, what SPA means (single page application) and these are often terrible UX. You wait a lot for it to load, then it's clunky and the moment you navigate away by clicking a link, you lose a ton of your app state.