And yet on my phone I wish websites would stop hawking the native app and just let me use the site. In a way I suppose this is the same complaint since the native apps are often a web wrapper with telemetry.
no but actually I can’t stand wasting my storage on telemetry bloated bullshit. Let me use the website or I’m noy buying your garbage
I used to put the forms inside of invisible tables, as was the style at the time.
I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline. It is more secure to run an app in the browser because off the layers of isolation in modern browsers. Native apps can access all sorts of information and system resources, which could be used to compromise the host OS.
There’s a standard API for offline webapps: ServiceWorker https://dev.to/taiwofamaks/build-an-offline-first-web-app-with-service-workers-2ml7
I wonder why it’s not used more. Maybe not intuitive enough, or maybe JS framework don’t support this.
Companies want that sweet, sweet live telemetry.
This actually kinda exists, but appears to be implemented in Chrome on Windows only (sigh), and I’m not sure anyone uses it:
Fuckit, if anything more fancy than HTML + CGI is needed, there’s always VRML.
…holy shit, it just dawned on me… VRML + CGI? Today’s PCs should have no issue rendering it, and server-side should be the same as any other CGI page. I gotta do some experimenting with this.
UPDATE: I actually did some research into this, and the possibilities are actually quite extensive. In theory it should be possible to make an extremely basic multiplayer FPS game.
To be fair web is still more cross-platform UI than anything else while Apple and Google try to distance their compatibility even further.
My favorite part is how this meme itself consists entirely of plain text plus a little styling.
Well I totally agree with it :) (even if it should be ironic)
I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline.
Vanishingly few apps work fully offline and they tend to be the ones that don’t send a buttload of requests in the first place.
In my experience.
I don’t get it, sorry.
