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Tools that unlike local apps will go offline when the vendors' web site will go offline at some point. And then the user will have a stupid brick instead of a d
by ale42 2y ago
Tools that unlike local apps will go offline when the vendors' web site will go offline at some point. And then the user will have a stupid brick instead of a device. I understand the convenience of using a web-based application, but it has numerous disadvantages that should also be taken in account.
- zamadatix 2y agoA browser based application doesn't need to rely on the vendor's website being up any more than an executable based application needs to. It's definitely an option in each case but one does not imply the other. Distribution access becomes a pain point but in either case the answer is to find archived versions.
- ale42 2y agoSure, but I can easily put an installer on a NAS (or on whatever media I use for long-term storage) and keep it there. Properly archiving a website and making sure it works offline is another story: sometimes it is relatively simple, sometimes there are requests on backend servers and you'd have to reimplement whatever the backend is doing, and it can get a real pain to do.