Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web by londons_explore on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:50PM (#37356973)

Test of if an OS is ready for regular users:

Does drag and drop work? Can I choose a random image/file somewhere in one tab/application and drop it into another.

Just testing that now...

* Drag HN logo to Whatsapp Web: Pass

* Drag from Google Photos to Photopea: Pass

* Drag a zip file from Google Drive to Dropbox: Fail.

* Drag an attachment from an email from gmail into an online hex editor: Fail

Conclusion: The web platform isn't yet ready.

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Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web by jrajav on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:16PM (#37357169)

You could just as easily construct an arbitrary usability test over interop that the web platform excels at while current desktop apps do terribly. For instance:

* Send a link to a Google Drive document to another person on WeChat: Pass

* Send a link to a Microsoft Word document to another person on Slack: Fail

The web has different paradigms and some of them are an improvement, one being hyperlinks, another being instant delivery just for example (no install time).

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Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web by londons_explore on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:08AM (#37369418)

But you can drag and drop a word document to slack...

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Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web by Klonoar on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:53PM (#37357371)

I've known "regular users" who don't even realize you can drag and drop between desktop applications.

Conclusion: this is an incredibly arbitrary metric.

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Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web by nightfly on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:01PM (#37357405)

I've never even considered doing many of those things, and I've worked in IT for ~10 years and been using computers for 25

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