Question 1: Could you summarize or maybe add a page about it? There's just two lines of text and then a bunch of links. I really can't tell what you're getting at.
The obvious answer to all the questions would be to just create normal software and people can upload/share their files if they want to. That's pretty much how all software works except for SAAS web stuff. I assume you're getting at something different, but it isn't at all clear what it is.
Local/native software has been around for many decades. Long before web software; long before the web itself even existed. What is different about this idea?
Is it some way to make web UIs actually as functional as native applications? Some format to make data from web apps as usable as data from normal applications?
Thanks! Yep, I think we need an about page, and maybe a few pull quotes from the articles. The first article from Ink & Switch is the canonical source of the name and the idea.
I think a lot of web consumer products (and dare I say SaaS too) are these days _not_ on your own computer like they were in the 90's or early 2000s. This isn't a call to return to those days, but it is a reminder that there have been trade offs in moving our productive lives entirely to other people's computers - both in terms of technical performance, but also conceptual ownership and the like. Can we rebalance a little?
So yes, the idea is exactly _not_ new. But a lot of products are built today without considering this tried-and-tested architecture as an option. This site & list of tools is just a friendly reminder that yes, there is another way.
The obvious answer to all the questions would be to just create normal software and people can upload/share their files if they want to. That's pretty much how all software works except for SAAS web stuff. I assume you're getting at something different, but it isn't at all clear what it is.
Local/native software has been around for many decades. Long before web software; long before the web itself even existed. What is different about this idea?
Is it some way to make web UIs actually as functional as native applications? Some format to make data from web apps as usable as data from normal applications?