I don't want to start a flame war on this, but web applications do have
advantages... given they are designed and implemented well and used in
areas, where this kind of application makes sense and where the
application is able to show off its advantages. Of course they also have
disadvantages.
It's as with nearly everything: Just take the right tool which fits best
to the work that has to be done. To nail something better use a hammer
than a wrench, albeit it would be possible to get the nail in with the
wrench, too ;-)
That said, I don't think that an IDE is a good application for web
browsers. Too much interactions, too much parallel/background stuff that
has to be done, the web UI is too limited etc. My personal opinion is
that I rather would like to see all developers effort is put into making
the already great Netbeans IDE even better, and concentrate on that.
E.g. not getting distracted by big refactorings and additional
abstractions which makes it harder to deliver a stable and fast tool in
the end.
Just my 2 cents, as I'm not yet an active contributor for the project,
but a happy long year user of Netbeans (since 6.x). I'm hoping to be
able to spend some time in the future and will be able to give something
back to Netbeans and contribute some little stuff.
cu
Jens
Am 24.11.2019 um 21:41 schrieb Chuck Davis:
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
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