http://www.gooli.org/blog/my-first-web-app/ on software development and related issues Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.gooli.org/blog/my-first-web-app/#comment-27 goolife » Blog Archive » Desktop apps could fight back Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:26:44 +0000 http://www.gooli.org/blog/my-first-web-app/#comment-27 [...] It’s very hard to build a convincingly responsive UI using web technologies even with all the Ajax buzz, and Google is among the few companies that can actually pull it of. It’s so much easier to build desktop software even if you’re dealing with support for multi platforms (and as I’ve recently discovered it’s no fun for web app developers either). The problem with desktop software is that wherever you install it, you have to configure it, usually from scratch. My home Thunderbird configuration isn’t quite exactly what it is in the office, even if all of my actual email messages are on an IMAP server, and my address books aren’t in sync in an especially annoying way. [...] [...] It’s very hard to build a convincingly responsive UI using web technologies even with all the Ajax buzz, and Google is among the few companies that can actually pull it of. It’s so much easier to build desktop software even if you’re dealing with support for multi platforms (and as I’ve recently discovered it’s no fun for web app developers either). The problem with desktop software is that wherever you install it, you have to configure it, usually from scratch. My home Thunderbird configuration isn’t quite exactly what it is in the office, even if all of my actual email messages are on an IMAP server, and my address books aren’t in sync in an especially annoying way. [...]

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