On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:35:58PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > That stuff is just plain garbage. It inevitably breaks when JS is disabled > (and there are damn good reasons for doing so), and trying to put web apps > on the desktop is just plain ass-backwards: web-apps are shit period, people > should be trying to make desktop apps run on the web instead.
Amen. One of my personal projects is meant to be a "D Windowing System" with the hopes of making this happen - when it is usable, I'll post a link to the newsgroup. The idea is to take good ideas from Remote Desktop on Windows and X11 on *nix and combine the best, while cutting out the bad. Then, when you encounter one of these apps on the web, you just run it locally, like remote X, instead of in the browser. Work is going slowly since I'm busy with my paying work the vast majority of the time, but this is going to be cool. > -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net
