Re:Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]
by js8 on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:11AM
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Oh god no. It's one step forward, ten steps back.
Take a trivial example of desktop application integration, which is with us since Windows 3.11 - common file and printing dialog. Nothing standard like that on the web. Most web applications won't let you even export the data in editable format.
UI - horrible. Desktops had standard menus and shortcuts since 1980s. In fact, many SPAs are trying to invent their own desktop.
I could go on.. the fragmentation of web apps is so much larger than fragmentation of desktop apps.
Take a trivial example of desktop application integration, which is with us since Windows 3.11 - common file and printing dialog. Nothing standard like that on the web. Most web applications won't let you even export the data in editable format.
UI - horrible. Desktops had standard menus and shortcuts since 1980s. In fact, many SPAs are trying to invent their own desktop.
I could go on.. the fragmentation of web apps is so much larger than fragmentation of desktop apps.