On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 00:53 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > > > On 2008-03-24 at 07:26 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > >> A desktop application can download mail or news batch- > >> wise for > >> offline viewing, but a Web app can't, except for what it can cram > >> into the > >> browser session -- it can't automatically save anything to disk. > > > > Not true any longer. Whether or not this is a good thing, I leave to > > you to decide. ;^) Also: only in the, uhm, "fuller" graphical > > browsers. > > Exactly my point. The whole premise of Web development's superiority > over the desktop is that it's platform independent -- you don't have > to build for every device you want to support. But any plugins you > rely on have to be built and deployed for each device, canceling the > advantage. Now you have the limited portability of a desktop app > with the security-mandated restraints of a Web app.
It's almost like the mantra should be "This is not a web application this is just a simple method of deploying a crippled platform dependent application".
