{"id":792,"date":"2004-03-06T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=792"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"web_vs_desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/06\/web_vs_desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Web vs. Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/07\/12\/WebsThePlace\">Tim Bray<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/07\/12\/WebsThePlace\">\n<p>Application interfaces (VB, win32, X Windows, Mac OS) used to be &ldquo;richer environments,&rdquo; and the users abandoned them by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance (granted, the browser was an advance on previous online-service interfaces).<\/p>\n\n<p>[&hellip;]<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWhich is not to say that the browser is the right answer for everything. Here&rsquo;s an overgeneralization which I think works. Computer applications, excluding games, fall into one of three baskets: information retrieval, database interaction, and content creation. History shows that the Web browser, or something like it, is the right way to do the first two. Which leaves content creation.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>\nSome interesting ideas, but the point is a little murky since he considers NetNewsWire to be a browser, when it&rsquo;s both a &ldquo;richer environment&rdquo; for information retrieval and also a tool for content creation.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray: Application interfaces (VB, win32, X Windows, Mac OS) used to be &ldquo;richer environments,&rdquo; and the users abandoned them by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance (granted, the browser was an advance on previous online-service interfaces). [&hellip;] Which is not to say that the browser is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}