Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Web (HTML) Sux Date: 27 Dec 2025 23:24:33 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10i7khm$2e0ab$3@dont-email.me> <10i8lit$2ltf1$1@dont-email.me> <10i8u2b$2p3ha$1@dont-email.me> <69487137@news.ausics.net> <20251222135823.000042ea@gmail.com> <10icgk7$3rvck$1@dont-email.me> <20251222144314.000060d0@gmail.com> <10icj90$3snlp$2@dont-email.me> <20251222153725.000058b6@gmail.com> <10icl7j$3t6jc$2@dont-email.me> <10igm2u$10hm7$1@dont-email.me> <10ihdst$1aaqu$9@dont-email.me> <10ii5u3$1hc1p$1@dont-email.me> <10ilchu$2eq5v$4@dont-email.me> <694f0c5a@news.ausics.net> <10iolg1$3f97e$9@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZZPanE6T+APUyfEu3PBapwSU/wlkXh6SWjwg+o222xS4avrvQ8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wWSoHgPps6edgq/Nag6DrR5S4lc= sha256:WYSHksAjI5l9yfHhXc4uj+D4H0Jx4VBuN7s6Of/opzs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79936 On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:04:01 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > For every possible network connected client? > Lets see. An I-phone one, and android one - several android ones - a > windows one, a MAX OSX one, a Linux one, and a BSD one, and maintain all > of those.... > > ...or piggy back of a ubiquitous smart client called 'a browser'...? Precisely. We developed an Android app and the plan was to also port it to the iPhone. Dealing with Apple was such a pain in the ass the iPhone version was dropped. The web client only needed a browser, any browser, although Safari was marginal. No installation required. In public safety and other industries not having to install applications is a plus. Back when IE completely sucked they were even reluctant to install Firefox.