Comment by SirHound

9 years ago

> I have yet to find a "web app" that I delight in using, though I love many web sites and native apps.

I wonder how much of that is an intrinsic problem with web apps conceptually, or a result of the various limitations and design fuck-ups of the browser vendors.

The fuck-ups aren't just on the browser vendor site.

The entire front-end ecosystem is currently worse than enterprise Java at its peak and the quality issues stem from all sides.

The best web app I use daily is Slack (wrapped in its native app "shell" on macOS). But it still feels pretty poor.

On iPad it's worse. On iPhone strangely, it's not too bad.

  • If slack is the best, it really goes to show why nobody should be making non-native apps. Slacks Mac client (and their iOS client) is really, really bad.