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I never understood why anyone would want to download an application to do something as simple as checking email.
by newaccountman2 5mo ago
I never understood why anyone would want to download an application to do something as simple as checking email.
- thisislife2 5mo agoTo have a copy of your emails on your device, for backup, and offline use.
- Kinrany 5mo agoA web UI can do that
- thisislife2 5mo agoThe comment I was replying to was wondering why people installed apps to read email instead of using the browser based clients. So I don't understand your point ...?
- Kinrany 5mo agoYou can have a copy of your emails for offline use in your browser. Less so as a reliable backup.
- thisislife2 5mo agoTo be clear, a "Web UI" usually refers to a desktop or mobile application whose user-interface is built with web technology (HTML, CSS, JS etc.) that is rendered using a webview component in the application. You don't refer to a website (even if it is a web-based application like GMail) as "Web UI". It is still called a website. And while you are right that browsers today can store data for offline use, nobody considers it good enough for a backup.
- vachina 5mo agoA web UI cannot do that. It is simply not possible.
- Kinrany 5mo agoWebsites can work offline
- bigstrat2003 5mo agoBecause native apps are faster, work when you aren't online, and are all around more pleasant to use.
- newaccountman2 5mo ago> work when you aren't online, ...but why do you need that? Why does it need to be that fast too? I guess many more people here are real power-users of email than I would expect for a forum full of engineers lol