Subj : Zoom anyone?
To   : Borax Man
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sun May 03 2020 07:26 pm

Hi Borax!

03 May 2020 07:20, from Borax Man -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> They ARE designed for it for a long time.
 BM> Yes, for a long time this mistake has festered.

We agree to disagree :)

 BM> The issue is that we are reimplementing gui elements over HTTP, and
 BM> this has meant having to bolt on functionality.  I used to use quite a
 BM> few web based apps at work, now none. What used to be a web based apps
 BM> is now dedicated client programs using a crossplatform toolkit like
 BM> QT.

I did not mean that it is the best solution for everything.
But there are a lot of really, really good usecases.

 BM> We will continue to see complex websites, such as YouTube, Jitsi,
 BM> there will always be rich web portals, but we will see fewer
 BM> applications unrelated to a website using browsers.

I do not know.
99% of the programs I use privately are browser and terminal.

I used to use a specialized mailclient, now I use webmail.

 RM>> For example ChromeOS runs all its apps in the browser.
 RM>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS
 BM> Is it a proper OS, or an appliance?

I do not use it, so I am not that familiar.
But it seems that it is a small linux system, where linux is hidden, and the only shell is the browser.
It is used to view webpages and to run applications.

 BM> What I was referring to are things like web based Material Resource
 BM> Management programs, Quality Management programs and other enterprise
 BM> applications.

At work we have a lot of webapps.
Most of them are not very well made.
But usually because they did not put in a lot of effort, or they used really bad SAP Webthingy (whatever that is called.)

But naturally I agree that huge specialized applications can be better optimized if they are local apps.

But something like this is still extremely powerful:
https://www.freephototool.com/

CU, Ricsi

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