- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:14:37 +0000
- To: public-sysapps@w3.org
On 26/02/13 12:57, John Lyle wrote: > On 25/02/13 15:50, Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> Regarding running twice the same application, I do not see any advantage >> of allowing this and I feel that this is becoming a common pattern (an >> application can't have more than one running instance). > > I tend to agree, I don't see the advantage either. However, while this > is a common pattern in mobile operating systems, this isn't historically > true on PC. It also is a distinct change from web pages, where people > commonly have multiple tabs or windows open to the same site, so it > would be worth documenting in the runtime and execution model if this is > an intentional limitation that is being imposed. Actually, putting this way, I wonder if we shouldn't allow to have multiple instance of the same application running but also allow the runtime to prevent that. I'm not a big fan of putting UX choices in a specification. -- Mounir
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