Web vs Native (was Re: HTML5 limitations?)

[Bob Sneidar]

Which point illustrates something I'm sure seasoned developers have known for a long time: There is no way to write an app so that it will satisfy everyone, especially these days with all the ways to deliver an app! 

To illustrate, I had a gal here in the office lose some documents, because I had to reinitialize the copier HD in order to fix a problem that installing a web app for the copier had caused. Come to find out, she scans documents and keeps them stored on the copier for many days until she can get around to processing them. I asked her why she didn't just scan the documents directly into our document management app, and she said she doesn't do things that way, but instead uses Acrobat (or some other app) to COMBINE THE SCANNED DOCUMENTS WITH EXISTING PDF DOCUMENTS! All documents become one PDF! 

So I told her that it would be much better having each kind of document as a discreet document, so that routing each document somewhere else would not require her to pull the document apart again. Her response was, "This is the way I have always done it. This is the way I will always do it. I am not going to change!" 

Oh kay then. Turns out you cannot program around human will. 

Bob S


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 09:03 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> But we're making an app anyway, because of feedback from his customers which suggests that using bookmarks on mobile is too onerous.  They expressed a very strong preference for having in icon on their home screen, and even the one step needed to put a bookmark on their home screen was perceived as too difficult.  They'd much rather find, download, and install an app just to get an easy launch.
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> Richard Gaskin