Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:55:40 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <878u41t5pf.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="017616aa25f81ec581c44d76d61ba2f3"; logging-data="5510"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SEokMu7ckWw+OyvB6LCtjYZLfB2Ac8sE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:VqEKYUMir9RfHWoqtlcauT6F9LQ= sha1:rqRXUYwOzBkHLQsxzEpt3XCZZ/k= X-BSB-Auth: 1.7d1a6e08536fd0841505.20160107215540GMT.878u41t5pf.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6208 Daniel Pitts writes: > Hopefully, enough people still visit this newsgroup to get some > meaningful responses... > > I've been an enterprise software engineer for the last 10 years, > working on the server side of web based applications. I'm good at > designing such applications, but I've got an idea that is more suited > to the desktop space (it needs to be able to work offline, for one > thing). Just a note to say that offline does not mean without a server. I wanted a quick UI to do something the other day and the fastest method was in a web page to a local server. That can be a normal server (e.g. Apache, LightHttpd etc) or one built from a specific language like nodejs, Haskell or PHP. Making the browser the UI can simplify things a lot though it's not always suitable. -- Ben.