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QUORA - my answered Questions

Q018: Why do people write desktop GUI applications when they have browsers?

I think many answers do not reflect the question, they are answering a different question.

I think HTML5 is a nice portable GUI. Like X-Window, but very much higher level and better availability,

For most of my work today I?m using HTML5 for display only. I have almost no JavaScript but those litte Ajax Calls (onXXX). So the whole GUI is driven on Server side (no need for any JS Framework).

It?s not the fastest possible way to render GUI but it has advantages:

No need for Library Bindings (TCP/IP only)
Every language can do that, even the Shell
GTK is bound to C, QT is bound to C++
Maybe I don?t want to make AutoCAD with HTML5, but many many not heavy GUI Applications (business applications) can be made this way.