You've all been positing a lot of good arguments here. Let me put in my $.02...
I've recently become a fan of Google's Chrome browser after yet another piece of malware/spyware waltzed past Internet Explorer and Norton Antivirus on my home pc. Our team is testing ITSM 7.6 on ARS 7.5 right now in preparation for an upgrade. Out of curiosity, I decided to compare the relative merits of the major browsers. I have discovered that Internet Explorer performs at about the same speed as the WUT, but Chrome, Safari, and Firefox move much faster. Also, IE requires a plug-in to get spell-check capabilities which come automatically with the other three browsers, and has to be built or bought for the WUT. Not that there aren't drawbacks to the other browsers: Chrome doesn't play well with Remedy's calendars, and some of the buttons refuse to work at all. (Chrome is not a supported browser.) Firefox does something annoying with scroll bars on unlimited character fields. Safari on a pc hangs up if you're trying to create an incident with decision trees enabled but not defined. (In its defense, Safari for pcs isn't supported, either.) Overall, I'm impressed with the performance of the mid-tier on ARS 7.5. In the past I've developed applications intended for use with the native client, but I think I'm going to change my focus toward the mid-tier in the future. Rather than losing the WUT, I am gaining three fallback browsers and smartphone support without the additional expense of a smartphone-only application. We may even decide to upgrade to ARS 7.6.3, depending on the timing of the release. There are a lot of things to like when you consider not supporting the WUT. Jennifer Meyer -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:22 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AR User Tool Deprecated? Angus...I'm a fan of the native client as well...but tell me this....would you use Amazon or Ebay if you needed to load a client to get to it? Maybe, maybe not...but I doubt that you WOULDN'T use it if you had to use the web browser, right? The default delivery method for this type of software these days is web...maintaining clients is a royal pain in the ARS (sorry...couldn't resist the pun)...web applications are robust and those apps that rely on client based interactions need to update their interfaces to allow for newer technologies. E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
