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Obviously it would be behind a user access prompt. With Google Sheets, one thing I find annoying is; I am unable to write/pre-format a bunch of data to a googl
by apatheticonion 4y ago
Obviously it would be behind a user access prompt.
With Google Sheets, one thing I find annoying is; I am unable to write/pre-format a bunch of data to a google sheets specific document (containing formulas, graphs, etc).
Instead, I must interact with the Google Sheets API, force the user to SSO, and programmatically assemble a sheet via the API.
It's difficult to distribute templates, and google sheet document links cannot be moved out of Google Drive. If they are, they cannot be recovered when they are moved back into Google Drive.
Macros are evaluated by Google's cloud compute and not locally on my machine, so they have some crazy convoluted way to implement macros.
This is the model a lot of web applications take - "anything happening in the browser is not happening on your computer". I want to view the web as an alternative to GTK, Cocca, WinUI - an ergonomic cross platform GUI toolkit.
Electron is evidence that I am not alone in that thought process. Giving the browser greater capabilities with a sensible user-prompt security model would allow PWAs to replace Electron - reducing the overhead of running several Chromium instances to access applications that are just web apps which need FS access.