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by bigstrat200320 hours ago |
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upvoteby PaulHoule8 hours ago|
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When Windows wants to nag you it makes marketing-oriented screens that I think are visually attractive in a commercial way if not quite as 'cute', 'cool' and 's--y' as a gatcha screen from a mobile game. These sure look like they were drawn with an HTML-based rendering system and if they weren't, they were certainly inspired by commercial art on the web.

When MacOS wants to nag you it pops up a Liquid Glass vandalized version of the 1999 retread of the modal confirm dialog from the 1984 MacOS.

I wish both of them had NEVER OPEN A MODAL DIALOG THAT I DIDN'T ASK FOR EVER AGAIN button that took 80% of the space and a tiny little greyed-out link at the bottom that said "maybe just maybe I want to hear about this in three years" but from a graphic art viewpoint I laugh at MacOS.

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upvoteby wiseowise13 hours ago|
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> The best experience will always be a native app

Nonsense. The best experience is the one that solves user’s issue. Technology choice is orthogonal to that.

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upvoteby vscode-rest16 hours ago|
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Figma is far superior to the native apps it replaced. As is VS Code. Slack.
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upvoteby Anamon12 hours ago|
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One could (and I would) argue that they achieved that despite their web-tech-based UIs, not because of. At least those of us who were around for the days when most apps were still native, do notice and get bothered by the input lag, for instance.

Slack is, in fact, one of the worst offenders. It is so incredibly sluggish. And it doesn't need to be, when I compare it to the speed (and memory consumption) of Pidgin with the Slack plugin.

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upvoteby PaulHoule8 hours ago|
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Async comm in web apps often keeps them responsive when the native app experience is: spinner... spinner... spinner... spinner... lock up the window and you can't move it... spinner... spinner... spinner... "should i reboot the whole machine first thing or should i try killing the app with task manager and starting again?"
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upvoteby vscode-rest7 hours ago|
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Their killer feature, being able to share a link with anyone at the company and instantly collaborate (live!), is made far easier on the web platform vs native. “The input lag” frankly does not matter in the big picture, imo.
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upvoteby neutronicus7 hours ago|
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> As is VS Code.

That is, uh, controversial.

Along both "alleged replacement" and "alleged superiority" axes.

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upvoteby vscode-rest6 hours ago|
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