Interresting article Anthony, thanks for sharing... :)
Richard On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some interesting points made here: > https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/why-desktop-apps-are-making-a-comeback-5b4eb0427647 > > > On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 4:23:37 PM UTC-4, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos > Martins wrote: >> >> >> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:47:25 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>>> >>>> What I do not understand is why. Why would anybody want to build a >>>> desktop in this day and age. You can always install a webapp locally, with >>>> a single user, run the server in background via a .bat script and auto-open >>>> the browser. How is that different than a desktop app in practice? >>>> >>> >> I accept the arguments when someone questions "why make desktop apps". >> >> But there are a lot of cases when it is better to make a desktop app than >> a web based one. >> >> For first, you don't know what's the browser the user is running. For >> most cases web2py renders the "which browser they're using" question >> irrelevant. But, there are unfortunately some things that are implemented >> differently (or not implemented at all) in all browsers. Also, not everyone >> making apps are using frameworks like web2py. So for a complete fail safe >> solution you would have to pack a firefox build along with your app, which >> means another 40~50MB. >> >> How would you make etherpad-lite work with every feature that gobby has? >> >> How would you implement most GPG functions (like encrypt/decrypt >> messages, import/export keys **safely**) the **proper** way in a web based >> local app? >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
