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No. The desktop is not cross-platform, cross-media and installation free. Your flippant dismissal of the real advances that the web brought to common computin
by dasil003 14y ago
No. The desktop is not cross-platform, cross-media and installation free. Your flippant dismissal of the real advances that the web brought to common computing renders your opinion moot.
- pjmlp 14y agoNeither is the web. As consultant, part of my job is to do web applications when the customers demand it, and web development is everything but cross-platform. The amount of hacks one has to write to have CSS, JavaScript and HTML working flawlessly across all desired operating systems, browser versions and handsets renders the cross-platform argument moot. As for installation free, the same is possible with the desktop applications as well.
- dasil003 14y agoThere's never been anything in the history of computing that is 10% as cross-platform and cross-media as the web. Your head is firmly embedded in the sand my friend.
- pjmlp 14y ago> Your head is firmly embedded in the sand my friend. I could say the same...
- dasil003 14y agoYou mean you could make a statement about my ignorance in isolation, but you obviously can't make a statement that supports that opinion. If you want to make outrageous claims like desktop programming is cross-platform and cross-media then you need evidence, you can't just proclaim things like "desktop programming can be installation-free". You need evidence. Especially since you were responding to my post and going off on a bizarre unrelated tangent.
- pjmlp 14y ago> desktop programming can be installation-free Just provide the software in a zip package with all its required dependencies. No installation required. There are lots of ways to write multi-platform desktop software. I have been doing it since the early 90's. Maybe the web is the only way for script kiddies to develop applications...