Web Application VS Windows Application
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Glad to help
This is a case where it is handy to assume that modern processes and design are the standard for a reason and assume that if they feel limiting that probably something is being missed. Web apps started replacing desktop apps for business applications (the kinds of things that companies write as opposed to games, desktop utilities and the like) around 1998 and have only gained steam since then. Today any enterprise application development that is not web based has to be stated as such or else people get confused. Of course there are and will long be exceptions, but they are becoming very niche at this point.
And Mozilla Prism is just one of many approaches. Another is how applications like Atom work. I recommend downloading Atom (from GitHub) to see what it looks like. This is a fully locally installed web app built from the same library as this website (MangoLassi.) Both are build on Node.js, one installed on a remote server and the other installs to your desktop. But both are web apps.
I also recommend using Atom, just because it is very nice.
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thank you for your help
but what Atom do exactly ?? is it an editor or a converter from web to desktop ??
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@IT-ADMIN said:
thank you for your help
but what Atom do exactly ?? is it an editor or a converter from web to desktop ??
It is an advanced text editor, similar to Sublime or Notepad++.
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The Nylas N1 email client that I use is web based as well, but locally installed.
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wow, it is very important what are saying now, this mean i can put some design on my web application and after converting it to be like a desktop app, it will looks woow even with fewer design because it will looks better than a normal desktop application
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@IT-ADMIN said:
wow, it is very important what are saying now, this mean i can put some design on my web application and after converting it to be like a desktop app, it will looks woow even with fewer design because it will looks better than a normal desktop application
Well these are especially good examples. You can make very, very ugly web applications as well
However, it can be pretty easy to make web applications look nice, too.If you read the most popular Ruby on Rails development tutorial, for example, they show how to use Twitter Bootstrap with just a single line of code to apply a very attractive template to your work so you need to do no design at all (other than that one line.) It will not look as nice as Atom, but you can get very nice, very easily, too.
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you are the Boss Scott
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@scottalanmiller said:
You can make a web app look, feel and behave just like a desktop app.
Maybe so, but for the two main applications that I use most of the time - Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics - the desktop app is superior to the web app, to the extent that I rarely use the web app at all.
Maybe it is possible to create web apps that are the equal of their desktop equivalents, but I've yet to see it.
@scottalanmiller said:
There is a reason why desktop apps of this nature have been considered a legacy design (for business applications) since the early 2000s.
What nature? Desktop apps still rule as far as I can tell. I rarely use web apps apart from for very simple applications.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
you are the Boss Scott
Thanks
Do you know what web application frameworks you are likely to use? Microsoft has some nice ones, but well worth considering are Node.js and Ruby on Rails as languages.
For Node.js, check out the Meteor framework.
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The Atom team from GitHub also makes the framework that they use for Atom available to make your own applications. It is called Electron.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
this book is not free lol
https://www.railstutorial.org/book
Sure is. Says right on the main page "Read Free Online"
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if i work with web application, i will use preexisting template , i will just customize the php code to meet the business need, i cannot crack my head with the design, it is another world (CSS, javascript, jquery and some other scary stuff) the template make our life easier
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@IT-ADMIN said:
if i work with web application, i will use preexisting template , i will just customize the php code to meet the business need, i cannot crack my head with the design, it is another world (CSS, javascript, jquery and some other scary stuff) the template make our life easier
None of that book is design.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
how i can do that ?? a web application is different than windows application, they are totally 2 different things, the web application need a web browser to run while the windows application do not,
Yes and no. Do you need a web browser for MS Office? Yet it is a web app. You can make a web app look, feel and behave just like a desktop app. You can even install it locally.
What makes Office 2013 a web app? I'm assuming that this means when you install Office 2013, you're installing a webserver and a private special browser just for use with Office?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
if i work with web application, i will use preexisting template , i will just customize the php code to meet the business need, i cannot crack my head with the design, it is another world (CSS, javascript, jquery and some other scary stuff) the template make our life easier
None of that book is design.
you mean it is a programming language, right?
but wait, why should i learn new language while i already knew one ??? -
@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
You can make a web app look, feel and behave just like a desktop app.
Maybe so, but for the two main applications that I use most of the time - Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics - the desktop app is superior to the web app, to the extent that I rarely use the web app at all.
Maybe it is possible to create web apps that are the equal of their desktop equivalents, but I've yet to see it.
@scottalanmiller said:
There is a reason why desktop apps of this nature have been considered a legacy design (for business applications) since the early 2000s.
What nature? Desktop apps still rule as far as I can tell. I rarely use web apps apart from for very simple applications.
And this is where the confusion comes in.
According to Scott - Office 2013 installed locally on the desktop (on Windows) is a web app. So is the web app version of Word that you can get with Office 365.
So my question is... why aren't they the same? What prevents MS from having them be identical, or at least nearly so?
