Margaret Leibovic wrote on 26.01.2016 16:09:
Is it possible to develop your app as a hosted webpage?
I'm confused here. I thought Mozilla's mission was to establish web
technologies as application platform.
An application must be installed locally and function offline, and have
no connection to servers unless it needs new data. That's what makes it
an app, in contrast to a webpage. There are plenty of usecases and
reasons why that is absolutely necessary:
* Privacy
* I need the app to work on the road, and I often have no network. Still
the app needs to work always, no exceptions.
* Efficiency. The app needs the same, large (1-2 GB) data again and
again. It would be a waste to re-transmit it.
I'm not saying that you should support any particular technology. Just
that I need certain properties from my app platform. These are e.g.:
* Works on all current OS (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac)
* Installed once, then needs no more network connection unless it needs
new data
* Can store and work with large and small files efficiently
just to list a few common pain points.
What's the story for those apps?
Ben
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