> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:47:25 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> What I do not understand is why. Why would anybody want to build a >> desktop in this day and age. You can always install a webapp locally, with >> a single user, run the server in background via a .bat script and auto-open >> the browser. How is that different than a desktop app in practice? >> > I accept the arguments when someone questions "why make desktop apps".
But there are a lot of cases when it is better to make a desktop app than a web based one. For first, you don't know what's the browser the user is running. For most cases web2py renders the "which browser they're using" question irrelevant. But, there are unfortunately some things that are implemented differently (or not implemented at all) in all browsers. Also, not everyone making apps are using frameworks like web2py. So for a complete fail safe solution you would have to pack a firefox build along with your app, which means another 40~50MB. How would you make etherpad-lite work with every feature that gobby has? How would you implement most GPG functions (like encrypt/decrypt messages, import/export keys **safely**) the **proper** way in a web based local app? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
