[thelist] Spolsky: things you can't do really well in a web application
Joel D Canfield
joel at spinhead.com
Wed Jun 16 12:18:00 CDT 2004
Quoting from Joel's (the other one, not me) latest article:
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Here are a few examples of things you can't really do well in a web
application:
1. Create a fast drawing program
2. Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines
3. Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the
close box of the browser
4. Update a small part of the display based on a change that the user
makes
without a full roundtrip to the server
5. Create a fast keyboard-driven interface that doesn't require the
mouse
6. Let people continue working when they are not connected to the
Internet
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So, I'm curious. Some of 'em seem, conceptually, simple. Spell checker?
Keyboard driven interface? I appreciate the qualifier 'well' in his
comment, but is this really accurate, right now today?
joel
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