It's a great reason why webapps suck. A licensed local app would be great here, as the customer wouldn't lose value when Fable disappears. Yet now customers lose all value. Great.
So frustrating as a user.
So frustrating as a user.
For one thing, it's origin-private, so take a guess how well that works when the company owning the DNS records for that origin goes out of business.
(There's also the issue with actually having an executable that can just run without any external dependencies)
> when the company owning the DNS records for that origin goes out of business.
Likely not a problem. Local data in OPFS is synced with a remote server for collaboration reasons anyway.
> There's also the issue with actually having an executable that can just run without any external dependencies
Assume you target the browser as OS, then it's already possible to have an executable: Run the JS file that renders a UI. Related: We will likely have an app launcher demo soon for https://lix.opral.com/
What doesn't work in Safari and Firefox is (non sandboxed) access to the files of a user. OPFS is sandboxed.
Everything as SaaS web apps is just yet another chapter in the enshittification of tech.
Isn't this fine as long as this is the only thing it does?
"Making sure this has been paid for" seems completely legitimate.