[LINK] The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> How is this different to the app world today?  Try not upgrading your app
> and you're probably going to find that it stops working pretty quick as they
> update the API and break backwards compatibility.

Doesn't seem to interfere with my ability to run 1997 released Paint
Shop Pro v5 under both Windows and Linux (via WINE).

There's a way to do cross-platform client side apps: it's called Java,
and I run those daily both on top of the Oracle JRE on WIndows and
OpenJDK 7 on Linux..

My favorite:
Jitsi (Instant Messaging, SIP VOIP, chat, videoconference)
http://www.jitsi.org

Please let me know when you can do something like muCommander on HTML5...

Info http://ho.io/mucommander
JWS launcher: http://ho.io/mu-commander

So, yes, HTML is no longer for web pages. That doesn't mean (for me)
that running apps inside a browser is even desirable or a magic
bullet. :-)

FC