It was always about the IT people though, not the users. Outlook as a web app is a good example. It has had enormous funds spent on producing it, likely far more than pretty much any other web app. But shown the web app and the desktop app, users pick the desktop one pretty much every time. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: David Connors via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 1:00 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Cc: David Connors <david@connors.com> Subject: Re: Blazor popularity and use On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 12:06, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> wrote I must end on a sad note. ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET>, Blazor, JS, or whatever, all finish-up rendering in a web browser. It's tragic that the ancient dumb web browser is now the only host for web apps, and that we must attempt to present serious business applications using HTML, CSS and JS. The web browser was invented so we could have flame wars and look at pictures of cats and porn, it's barely evolved since then and it's completely inadequate for rendering business applications. Sure it can, but look at the flaming hoops and all the weird quirks you have to jump through. Web development is in a lamentable state. You have a short memory of what it was like deploying apps back when thick clients were the only option. Modern web has done more to streamline ops than anything else and reduced application deployment to pushing code to an app service and end-user deployment to pasting a link in an e-mail or IM.