Furthermore, keeping the state in a web application is harder. For example in a desktop application you can open a dialog box and when you are finished you get

Furthermore, keeping the state in a web application is harder. For example in a desktop application you can open a dialog box and when you are finished you get back to where you were. You can call the dialog box from several places and you always get back to your previous state. It is like calling a subroutine and then return vs doing a "goto" and then another "goto" to get back. You end up with a lot of spaghetti code.