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Originally Posted by Toblakai
HeroLab is not system agnostic currently, HeroLab Online will be system agnostic though.
Or by "System Agnostic" do you mean it needs to run on "my system"?
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System Agnostic is the ability for the app to be run
natively on any Operating System. This will require separate compiles and installers but offer the best system performance all around. The output of the app must be transferable from one OS to another without modification.
Hero Lab and Army Builder both meet those requirements but Card Vault, which seams to have been abandoned, does not.
While Realm Works is, theoretically, an online system the framework it is based on is proprietary code that requires the Windows OS to function properly. You can not use RW unless you first emulate Windows. This will always cause performance issues.
This best User Interface experience will always be when every native function of the users chosen GUI just work and the app becomes an extension of that GUI, not some skewed or perverted amalgamation that does not fulfill the desires of the publisher or the user. Proper use of generic code and allowing APIs to do their job in the compile allow for an app that, while taking about 15-20% longer to develop, will reach 100% of the platforms out there and be as much as 40% more efficient to maintain.