Wake me up when you can write to a DVD drive from HTML5. Desktop apps have their problems but I believe they're more in security than straight ugliness/difficulty. Who wants to run my random exe file compared to navigating to my random web page? Virtually nobody, because the OSs don't sandbox applications, they sandbox users. That needs fixing, plus the requirement of admin rights to install apps needs removing, then we can eliminate this pointless web/desktop boundary and start writing more straightforward code again.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:34:19 PM UTC+2, fabrizio.giudici wrote: >> >> This is agreeable (for the relevant contexts), but we should also be aware >> that architectures have had a flip-flop attitude in the past years. >> Client/Server was also the apparent trend fifteen years ago, then things >> changed, and then changed again. I would not bet a single eurocent that >> within two years things will stay the same. > > > For sure, trends come and go even in our geeky world. However, the world is > getting more heterogeneous and I don't really see what would make the > pendulum swing back - certainly not in two years from now. We went from > modal applications based on 80x24 ASCII characters, to windowed desktop > applications, to model2 browser applications and now finally to native > mobile iOS/Android apps. With devices getting more and more diverse and > embedded service consumption moving into printers, TV's, set-tops etc. I > don't see the current HTML5/Ajax model (Canvas, LocalStorage, WebSockets > etc.) going away anytime soon. And really, I doubt very many are going to > miss Swing, Silverlight nor Flash. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/2OVZw4raOOsJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
