On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 17:40:30 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 14:30:49 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 13:22:43 UTC, Etienne Cimon
wrote:
I actually use the size of a vibe.d application (2mb) to my
advantage to produce a plugin that will overload certain
requests on the client's computer (via a windows service or
launchd daemon and reverse proxy). This allows much more
extensive use of local resources, which is really untapped
way of developing web applications at the moment, it really
lets your imagination fly.
That is very interesting. But how do you push those apps to
the end-users without interrupting their browser experience?
You have to make them download the app and agree to elevate.
It's not going to be useful for content-based websites, but it
definitely has potential in areas where a download
would've/could've been necessary anyways e.g. music/video/image
editing, phone calls, file sharing, productivity, games, etc.
It really depends on how appealing it makes your application.
If your offer beats competition by far, a download won't be
regarded as disruptive.
I was hesitant to agree with you, as the whole point of a web app
is to have it *mostly* in the web browser. But one thing is for
sure a detriment to things: web apps that should have been native
apps.
There's nothing like firing up a project management system
online, and wondering why it's slow, unresponsive, and offers
little *powerful* features. Open Microsoft Project as a native
app under Windows, and boom. You're in *real* business.
For these kinds of apps, they shouldn't have ever been made "web
apps" but the way the world works, everybody wants everything to
be a "google search away" which is great and all, but places
serious limitations on just exactly what can be done.
A downloaded plugin, would be a man-in-the-middle solution. Users
get there "google search away" and developers get the necessary
native speed, flexibility, and components necessary to perform
better work.
The browser is a stellar user-interface engine. Certainly better
than GTK+ or MFC by a long shot. I just don't think the browser
is a useful *operating system* for all these "web apps" that
should be native.
