• passenger@lemm.ee
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          Doesn’t do collaborative online editing and that seems what this is about. But there are foss alternatives already, collabora/nextcloud, cryptpad etc.

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      A good web app is awesome!

      But the big ones usually wants to have a native app so that they can scan your whole computer and so on. This is good news.

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        which is fine if you deny network connections for it with a per-process firewall. but with a webapp you can never be sure that they won’t snatch your documents.

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      A bit of both I guess

      Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe

      And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better

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        I guess I don’t mind if I can self host the server. If I can’t I have no interest in touching it.

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            True: self hosting is beneficial, Foss office suite is great to empower us, users… etc.

            The point of the software presented isn’t aimed at regular computer users that would enjoy a bit of independence, it looks more like something aimed at the enterprise administrative level that people may stumble upon while searching for a document (who needs versioning apart from filename extensions if you alone work on the documents).See it as: you may find , download and use updated packaged software on github but in reality it’s really a tool aimed at devs before being a software repository for end users.

            I see this as software mainly for the French or German state administration being made public for others to enrich, integrate… Like Olvid is a matrix based E2E encrypted, real authenticated identity based messenger made available to the public once the French government financed it’s development for it’s own use.

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      It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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        it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

        They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

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          I’ve never found them to be more performant, and i can’t understand the logic of why a programme running inside another programme would be more performant except in comparison to unoptimised alternatives.

          I’ve never used a web app that i thought was better than a local app. But i definitely understand why developers prefer them.

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          They also work on android and IOS.

          I can imagine it’ll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is