Some interesting points made here: https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/why-desktop-apps-are-making-a-comeback-5b4eb0427647
On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 4:23:37 PM UTC-4, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > > > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
