On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 00:08:52 UTC, Brandon Ragland wrote:
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.
There's been lots of improvements in the DOM, those slick CSS3
transitions are actually hardware accelerated with OpenGL, lots
of GUI front-ends don't event have transitions in the first
place. I wouldn't rely on Javascript for crunching data though,
the "slowness" you talk about? Mostly stems from that. Otherwise,
for display, it certainly is a great tool with lots of open
source components.
Just look at this data table with 640k rows:
http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial/404_large_data_sets_and_performance
THAT is some good javascript, and it certainly beats what I've
seen Excel do with sheets harboring 10x less data.
While some are still blaming the hammer, I blame the person
trying to hit the nail on the head with his eyes closed.
