Question

Stackoverflow User Luke wrote in this answer:

The boundaries between desktop and web applications have really blurred. Whilst once upon a time the nature of developing for the web was totally different to developing for the desktop, nowadays you find the same concepts […] cropping up in both.

Since I am continually looking to improve my existing web applications, I’d like to know which common features of ‘classic’ desktop applications do most web application miss?

For example, most desktop apps prompt the user to save unsaved data leaving a page or closing a window – a feature that many web applications miss. It could be that some feature aren’t even necessary or are compensated in some other way. Maybe there are features which can’t be implemented in (a classic) web application?

Answer 1

• Support for Big Files.
• Integration with the client OS.
• Support for special Input/Ouput Devices.
• 3D or anything else computationally intensive (specific to each users).