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Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application.

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On 1/7/16 1:55 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> 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.
Yeah, I've considered this as well.  The thing is that I'm also going to 
want integration with iOS devices at least (and probably Android/Windows 
at some point).  I feel like a web-server is high overhead for a 
native-feeling App.

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Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 11:37 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-07 21:24 +0100
    Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:02 -0800
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-08 09:30 +0100
        Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-13 10:25 -0800
          Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-13 21:20 +0100
          Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-14 02:57 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-07 21:55 +0000
    Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:01 -0800
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> - 2016-01-08 10:05 +0100
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-08 19:14 +0000
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-09 04:09 -0800

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