"Sean Kelly" <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote in message news:mailman.1031.1337823511.24740.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On May 23, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> >wrote: >> On 5/22/2012 2:55 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> I'm sure Google Docs is fast(-ish) on that 64-bit multi-core 8GB RAM, >>> SSD >>> storage machine, but when it takes that kind of hardware just to run a >>> what's really just a basic word processor, you know something has gone >>> horribly, horibly wrong. >> >> Heh, no way I'd use a laggy text editor. >> >> Also, given the sporadic arbitrary random delays in my internet >> connection, >>there's no way I'd buy into heavily using an interactive app that relies >>on a >>100% connection. > >You shouldn't need a 100% connection if the app is designed correctly. >Modern browsers have some kind of persistent storage solution for >web apps.=
If the app is designed correctly, it won't involve a browser in the first place. A bit old, but still very good: http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html A gem excerpt: ---------------------------------------- Making It Easier On Idiots: After a while, everybody wanted to be a programmer. Since programming is actually kind of hard, many of these folk landed in PHP and HTML, hence the explosion of webapps. As such, the browser became a feeble example of a "runtime". ----------------------------------------
