Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by JohnStrange on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:21AM (#15507246)

I'm not using web apps at all. To be honest, I thought they were a fad and am amazed that they are still deemed successful and trendy. I haven't seen a web app so far that would even remotely match a corresponding desktop application in terms of quality and features. But I guess times are changing and people are happy with less quality, as long as its shiny and new.

Most web apps violate basic user interface design and don't even have working keyboard shortcuts. And let's not get started on user-definable menus, arbitrary undo, re-ordering of interface elements, scripting, and other advanced features.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound negative and to each his own. I personally don't use a web app for mail and have found absolutely zero use for any other web application I've tried so far.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by DamonHD on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:56AM (#15507450)

I don't run anything other than stock apps on my phone.

The desktop is a different world.

Web apps should be able to shine as portable consume-mainly low-pain deployments.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by pdimitar on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:21PM (#15510808)

> Most web apps violate basic user interface design and don't even have working keyboard shortcuts.

I am extremely saddened this comes up less and less.

An ancient accounting office where you can do EVERYTHING with F1-F12 and a bunch of other shortcuts, written in 1993, is more advanced in terms of UX compared to most web apps.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by mattimo on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:02PM (#15509057)

There are some decent electron apps like Atom and Slack.

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