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by pkphilip 458 days ago
True. The UI of the applications from the late 90s to the early 2000s was way better than it is now - especially when you compare it to what is there in the web apps now.

Besides keyboard shortcuts, the following capabilities haven't really been implemented in web apps:

- Context menus

- Macros and the ability to record macros and create your own shortcuts to these macros.

- Terminal prompts built into applications such as in Autodesk - in some senses similar to the REPL in Clojure but built into the application