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Woudn't a native app be better for that anyway? Why depend on a browser for this?

• winrid 3y ago
  How many people will give a runaround before answering the question? It's meant to run on a laptop. In an existing site that people will already be using. It's free software. If you wanna build a native client, too, be my guest. I might at some point.
  • yawaramin 3y ago
    I thought the answer would be implicit in my question, but it's not very difficult to find an explicit answer, it's the second essay on the essays page: https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/#if-you-require-offline-functionality https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/#if-you-requi... Having said that, for a time-tracking application, personally I wouldn't be OK with the risk of a browser screw-up (e.g. site data deleted, malware hoses the browser) losing tracking data. But you do you.
    • winrid 3y ago
      I mean, they use Google sheets or another web app already, so....
      • yawaramin 3y ago
        Yeah, I mean Google Sheets is created by Google, who can afford to throw craptons of money and warm bodies at the specific problem of making sure their browser is an inescapable part of the life of every modern computer user, so they can sell ads. You and I don't have the same constraints and resources as Google.