Swinging back
to desktop applications
Nothing can break fundamental laws of philosophy and now all applications are migrating from serverside architecture to a classical client / server one with a rich desktop client which is nothing more than desktop application. A reason of that quite obvious, servers can't handle too many requests to provide decent looking UI. Java script took significant portions of processing on client side. However it wasn't a desktop application yet. Then Java script was capable to exchange data with server, still keeping an impression of serverside application. And finally Java script get power of accessing local storage to persist stages especially when a user is going offline. So the lap is completed and we are back to desktop client / server applications with unified UI capabilities and still proprietary accessing to local data storage.It's good from one side, because you do not need to take care of OS specific stuff and bad from other side since you will need to deal with proprietary software and extra X.