Comment by koonsolo
4 years ago
I wonder if and when the splitup will happen between the "text" web and "app" web.
I know you can disable Javascript, but this is still different.
4 years ago
I wonder if and when the splitup will happen between the "text" web and "app" web.
I know you can disable Javascript, but this is still different.
I am have dreamed of a browser that lets me create desktop shortcuts to webapps and then pretend as if the webapp is its own fully independent application but all webapps would still run in the same browser instance.
Chrome lets you do exactly this: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053?hl...
I imagine other browsers probably do, too.
What would Hacker News be? How about email apps such as Gmail or Yahoo mail?
Both can be the text web.
I am fairly certain that I have posted to Hacker News with Lynx, which means that everything is handled server side.
About 20 years ago, I created a personal webmail client that was implemented entirely on the server side.
The distinction is important and while it would produce a very different web, but it does not mean a web of static content.
Well, I can certainly login, navigate to this comment, and then reply with Lynx.
It's not a great experience, mind, but it does work.
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There are email clients.
There are. I used Eudora up to 2005. Incidentally, I can't look at my email history before 2005, because, you know... formats become obsolete, hard drives die, etc.
Do those clients work on my mac, my chromebook, my windows box, and my android phone?
Call me crazy, but I prefer web apps for that kind of stuff. I'm also glad I don't have to download an app to use Hacker News.
As an independent developer, I am quite pleased that I can target one platform, the web, without having to deal with all the mess of multiple native apps, and worry that people won't run my simple app because they don't trust me not to delete their hard drive, and so on.
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