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  Stefan Richter commented on Writing HTML5 apps with Google App Engine, Google Closure Library and Clojure

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  • 1 year ago

  

  @John Douglas: I think I justified my opinion why Windows-Style apps inside the browser are not a good idea: The desktop metaphor with windows, buttons, forms etc. tries to press every problem into the same format. We thought: Because all apps work in the same way, they are easy to use. But this turned out as not true. Inside the browser you can create richer user interactions, that are exactly optimized to your problem at hand. And with JS/CSS (not especially with canvas/2D) it is much easier to build really complex clients and UIs than with native components (my opinion). You asked: Why are those 100,000's of apps not written in HTML5? I think, because it was not available then. And now the people are confronted with the problem to write for more than one platform (iPhone, Android etc.). I think we need a platform-independent alternative, that is not again tying developers to a single platform provider. And I think that web-based software is better than locally installed software. Thanks for your comment! :)
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  Stefan Richter commented on Using Clojure, NoSQL Databases and Functional-Style JavaScript to Write Gext-Generation HTML5 Apps

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  • 1 year ago

  

  You can find the video of the talk here: http://goo.gl/VQOe7
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