![]() Instead they punted on the problem by deciding to just gate keep all code and to offer a reduced functionality profile to apps. This is partly because vendors wanted total control over the "next" platform, and partly because iOS and Android did not actually solve the security aspect of the OS application model. I've dealt with both the Apple app store and the IRS, and the latter has far better customer service. Mobile OSes are somewhat better in this regard from a technical point of view, but in place of awful technology they have substituted the app store nightmare. Especially if you are targeting a wide customer base on multiple platforms. We know because we do the latter and it hurts. The browser offers an alternative way to ship an app to a user without having to go through the pain and suffering of building, testing, and packaging Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. why.īrowsers became OSes because existing OSes have a poor security model and a very poor application delivery model. That also reminds me of a few programs I've come across that inexplicably let you dynamically change their UI language to one of around a dozen choices (and all the language names were in English too.) If I remember correctly, it was something simple like a file converter or downloader where most of the UI was icons anyway, and around 90% of the installer package's size was these resource files. ![]() ![]() Why am I forced to download a dozen other languages I'll never read or even knew existed?" Which then begs the question, "I only need the English version. I some someone do a similar thing about how bloated vim had become but it was mostly documentation (plus translations) and stuff like that, not vim itself. ![]() I've seen apps with multiple sizes of the same simple - as in completely linear - gradient stored as uncompressed bitmaps. one of my pet peeves is gradients, simple shapes, or even completely flat regions of colour(!) stored as bitmaps. Even graphical resources are probably not stored as optimally as they could be, given what the demoscene can do in a 4 kilobyte binary. ![]()
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