Comment by auggierose
11 hours ago
You answered the question yourself: There is already a standard that allows anyone to create software that works cross-platform: the browser.
11 hours ago
You answered the question yourself: There is already a standard that allows anyone to create software that works cross-platform: the browser.
The browser is an extremely poor medium to deliver applications. It works, but barely, is a huge resource hog, fragile and it breaks way too often due to a lack of backwards compatibility between browser versions of the same manufacturer. I have a small app that I support and it's been fun to get it to work in the browser (instant cross platform support was indeed the driver) but the experience is still sub-par compared to what I could do on a local application.
this does not track with my experience, so possibly it's the nature of your app or the way it's coded. frameworks like react are notoriously crap. stick to pure html5/css/js and it can be extremely fast and light.
You could have clicked on my profile to find the app that you're criticizing unfairly. It does not use react, but it uses pure html5,css,js, it is extremely fast and light. And yet, there are things that it can not do simply because it runs in the browser, which is a poor operating system for a hard real time program to run under.
> There is already a standard that allows anyone to create software that works cross-platform: the browser.
Which one exactly ? IE ? Dillo ? Lynx ? Pale Moon ? Firefox version 126 ?