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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. |
| Date | 2016-01-08 19:14 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <8737u7sx28.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <l8zjy.76960$cu5.16783@fx13.iad> <878u41t5pf.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <8MEjy.78974$cu5.1642@fx13.iad> |
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> writes: > 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. I don't know what's available on all your target platforms, but overhead should not be an issue. Many languages provide an API that can act as a simple server -- in nodejs it's about three lines of code -- and, since your data loops though the local interface, it won't impose any noticeable delay. -- Ben.
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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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