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I am of the opposite mindset. I think there are just way too many apps out there and apps lack many things that HTML has - discoverability, cross-platform deplo
by electrichead 13y ago
I am of the opposite mindset. I think there are just way too many apps out there and apps lack many things that HTML has - discoverability, cross-platform deploys, reusability and other things. HTML is not for every use case, and native is definitely not the hammer for all use cases. Every time I go to a forum and see the giant display to download a whole app just to see their forum, it makes me throw up a little.
- unknownian 13y agoI think the main problem for this decade is that HTML/HTTP aren't realtime (if I worded that correctly) like IRC or something.
- jeffasinger 13y agoHTTP Long Polling, while a little bit of a hack, works incredibly well for most cases. Add in WebSockets and WebRTC in more modern browsers, and you're able to do pretty much any realtime thing you can think of (if you design a server to support it).