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I came up with a simple idea that will demonstrate when web-apps can compete with native apps. Replace notepad.exe with a webapp. Let it launch by double clic
by Lerc 14y ago
I came up with a simple idea that will demonstrate when web-apps can compete with native apps.
Replace notepad.exe with a webapp. Let it launch by double clicking on a .txt file. Let you edit,open..., save, save as..., print, exit etc.
If you can't do everything notepad.exe does, your platform is crippled.
By all means allow protections so that this behaviour isn't available to every app, but without those basics I'm not interested in using them, and it is certainly a blocker for me to be developing them.
- ZenPsycho 14y agoreplicating native file system functionality is not necessarily desirable from a ux perspective.
- Lerc 14y agoIt's not something that everything should be able to do, but it needs to be possible. It doesn't actually matter in the long run what the specific capabilities are, The important thing is for web apps to be genuine apps that matter they need to do anything that would be allowed from native code. I don't actually mind them making a crippled platform, as long as they admit that it is a crippled platform that can't do much of what I want. Selectively disallowing certain behaviours is really something that should occur at a different level that affects native and HTML/JS apps equally.
- ZenPsycho 14y agoI think that's the theory behind Chrome OS.
- Lerc 14y agoExcept Chrome OS is developed by people who are motivated to hold your data for you. I don't have a lot of faith in Chrome OS's ability to be independent of a server model when it so much in Google's interest for you to be effectively tethered to their servers.
- ZenPsycho 14y agohave you seen this? http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/ http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
- coopdog 14y agohttp://webintents.org/ http://webintents.org/