Dave, Thanks for helping to clear that up, I am sorry I misunderstood Khushboo's response. As for running in *desktop mode*, I didn't think that was possible for quite some time. I sure haven't been able to find out how to pull that off. If you could explain, I would imagine I am not the only one who would like that opportunity.
rik. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 4:45 AM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 8:50 PM richard coleman < > rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (sorry about the last missive - continued) >> >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:38 PM richard coleman < >> rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Darren, >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Have you tried using more than one browser? >>>> that's what I've taken to doing, I have a separate install of Chromium >>>> just for pgAdmin4. I've even changed the browser command to >>> >>> "chromium-browser %URL% " so that it starts with the right browser. >> >> Although not all browsers are apparently equal. Back on 2019-06-19 >> 04:10:13 Khushboo Vashi <khushboo(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> >> wrote in response to an issue I was having under Chromium; >> >>> "I would suggest, try a different browser as well as Chromium is not the >>> supported browser for pgAdmin." >> >> Which suggests that there is *a supported browser* for pgAdmin4. This >> begs the question, if there's only a *single* supported browser, what >> exactly is the point of a web app? It's like web sites that only worked >> correctly under IE6. >> > > Don't mistake the phrasing there as an implication that there's only a > single supported browser. Khushboo's first language is not English. > > We (the team at EDB, I can't speak for others) test on Chrome, Firefox, > Safari, IE and Edge. For anyone using other browsers, the first step for us > in diagnosing an issue is going to be to try to reproduce it on one of the > browsers we test with. It's not feasible for us to test with everything > that is out there. > > >> >> Developing pgAdmin4 as a *web app*/*web server* thing might make sense >> from a development standpoint, but personally I think it introduces way >> more problems than it solves. >> > > It certainly does cause some problems that we didn't have before, but it's > proven itself to solve a lot more. > > There's also the fact that running over the web is exactly what many > people want these days. I would guesstimate that we probably see something > like 50% of users we interact with running in web mode, and 50% in desktop > mode. Download-wise, the number of container pulls is far outstripping the > number of other downloads these days with Docker hub reporting > 10 > million. All of those users are running in web mode as that's the only way > the container runs, so it's clear that the web app architecture is the > right thing for a significant number of users. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
