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by AdrianSetter 2829 days ago
Yes, absolutely.

Not only are they usually possible to run offline, if they are not blockchain-based, but they tend to be faster and scale better than traditional web applications.

People usually move through three layers or more of "web" on a daily basis. We have the personal web at home, one at our office and one global one. But moving between these three usually requires specialized applications that are built with roaming in mind, if you want this.

If we instead would build our applications with something like IPFS, we can have applications that transparently move between these domains and works everywhere, without having separate applications or extra development effort.

I think at this point, most technology people have realized the faulty model we built the web on, compared to the internet. Slowly the rest is waking up to the fact that the web could be better in every way, but it'll take time to move everything.