Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by username223 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:51AM
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Webapps in the sense of "fancy JavaScript" are no better than Applets. Google has the infrastructure, money, and business model to put most of the code on their servers and write native clients. Modulo privacy issues, they have found a solution.
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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by piyush_soni on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:34AM
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Oh I bet they are! Like, anything is better than those slow, buggy and annoying Java Applets and I'm so thankful to god they're over. Did anyone ever notice how slow they were not only to 'run', but to initiate and start doing just about anything. I always knew it was a java applet even before it started anything because of its characteristic loading behavior.
Webapps today are the same. Their characteristic behaviour is rendering the skeleton of their UI, and then greeting you with a spinner. They take about as much to start up as Java Applets did.
Now, consider the orders of magnitude improvement in computing power over the years, and notice that webapps aren't really doing anything more complicated than old applets did...
Now remember that they ran on machines with 16MB of RAM. Could this page even render on a machine like that?
Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by piyush_soni on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:39AM
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Not sure on that. When I was in my University we used these Java Applets. I had 4 GB of RAM at that time in my laptop, and they were still very bad.