The following, written by guest writer Matthew Gertner, is a follow up to his post Bridging Desktop And Web Applications – A Look At Mozilla Prism on March 22, 2008.

Using a desktop app also means you can manage its notifications as part of your Windows or macOS settings, rather than messing around with the same options in your web browser.

Desktop apps can be lumbering beasts, but bloated browsers can make Web apps just as problematic. The Pokki platform runs sprightly Web and mobile apps on your desktop, no browser required.

AIR can be used to re-create such software as Web-desktop applications, he added. In those sorts of situations, AIR is a very nice fit to take what is working today and [update] it, Hammond said.

These Web-native desktop applications have become an active area of software development--Adobe says that there are over 100 AIR applications--and alternatives to AIR are starting to appear.

When Chrome OS appeared on the scene in 2011, you could make the case that desktop apps were still essential. Web apps were slow, buggy, and feature-limited, and they obviously didn’t work offline.

Prior versions (before V10) focused on creating desktop applications for Microsoft Windows environments. Alpha Five V9 started to change the development paradigm by including some web application ...

Knowing how to use WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp Desktop saves you reaching for your phone every time you want respond to the latest message from one of your group chats. The wildly popular, Facebook ...

Then click WhatsApp Web/Desktop on your device, then click Link a Device, you will then be prompted to point your phone’s camera at the app and the Desktop version of WhatsApp will be authorized.

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It also made the design of its web player and desktop app more similar to its mobile app, so that using Spotify across platforms is more cohesive, Spotify said in a blog post.