Well put, Scott. I have used quite a few web applications. They all suck. Either a browser cannot provide a decent interface for applications or nobody has yet figured out how to do it. Browsers are great for displaying information and downloading files but they are a reprehensible invention for applications. When Berners-Lee gets through reinventing the internet (which I've read he is working on) we can only hope he comes up with something better than the current generation of browser interfaces.
We have two hospitals in town. One just installed the same software the other one was using. I have talked to doctors from both and they all hate it. All the nurses at the new hospital (the one I know most about) hate it. The business office hates it. The only people who like it are the technologically ignorant administration (who, of course, don't use it for anything except displaying information and downloading files) -- it's cheaper -- and the IT department......go figure. Doctors are very frustrated -- they used to have an information system that worked -- now they have a web application and it is universally disliked by people who have to use it. This is just the most current example in my little universe. There are plenty of others in the recent past. Web applications are for lazy and clueless IT departments who have total disregard for the user experience, know nothing about designing a front end to an application, have no clue how to conserve application real estate and don't know the meaning of efficiency. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:10 PM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why anyone would want to downgrade to a web app experience is beyond me. > (That goes for everything, not just an IDE.) > > Scott > > >
