Difference between revisions of "Talk:1367: Installing"

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 10: Line 10:
  
 
Firefox OS can technically do this, and technically does this. {{User:Grep/signature|12:07, 12 May 2014}}
 
Firefox OS can technically do this, and technically does this. {{User:Grep/signature|12:07, 12 May 2014}}
 +
 +
Web pages and native apps still has a few essential differences that prevent us to interchange them practically, at least for now. The latter can be compiled and optimized into binaries that executes performantly on the specific device/platform. Current web standards don't make pages/sites/apps this way, the web browser needs to load the text codes then interpret and run them on the fly, which is much slower. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.79|199.27.128.79]] 08:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Revision as of 08:33, 16 May 2014

explainxkcd has it pretty easy with this one since the comic explains a lot of itself. Maybe explain what a smartphone is and how apps work? 108.162.237.218 05:28, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

For some reason, this reminded me of the old Snaptu app. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaptu) 108.162.225.147 07:02, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it should be mentioned that sometimes you DON'T want to auto-install every application and give it access to all your phone resources. Because, you know, malware. -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:47, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

I wonder why he chose cookies over localStorage... seems like localStorage does a better job of storing configs. greptalk12:06, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

document.cookies was invented before localStorage. --108.162.246.4 22:19, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Firefox OS can technically do this, and technically does this. greptalk12:07, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Web pages and native apps still has a few essential differences that prevent us to interchange them practically, at least for now. The latter can be compiled and optimized into binaries that executes performantly on the specific device/platform. Current web standards don't make pages/sites/apps this way, the web browser needs to load the text codes then interpret and run them on the fly, which is much slower. 199.27.128.79 08:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)