Technorama

Its 2015 and I'm astonished how many smartphone apps don't work without an internet connection.

Even the blogger app won't let me compose this.

Meetup, National Rail, and Google Chrome.

Press back to browse previous page and Chrome won't display the cached version.

The reason they dont work properly is because they're not real applications, they're just website front-ends. Without the server they're useless. Facebook made this mistake with their "app", then redeveloped it as a real app. So it still mostly works with cached data.

Evernote and GMail and WhatsApp messaging are good examples of apps that work well offline. They happily queue messages and sync them when internet connection is available.

posted by 東京  # 11:01 0 Comments

I see UI designers are still making the mistake of using MsgBox popups instead of using existing UI to just display the unavailable icon. Whatsapp makes this mistake. Wasting our time clicking [OK] regularly ....

posted by 東京  # 10:57 0 Comments