It would seem that I have started no small thing
with just an innocent comment.
I have watched the list these past few days and
have read many valid comments and opinions on the topic.
I guess it's time I put my two cents in,
eh?
1) DynAPI based IDE: A good idea in itself, but I
can guarantee that I would not be able to use it on
my P120 with 24 megs of
ram at home.. It's hard enough just to view a site like www.zara.com
(I still haven't seen it
at it fullest) and I know that a DynAPI IDE would be even more intensive that
the
afore mention web
site.
2) Delphi: While Delphi "will" support Linux, it
does not yet and counting on future
developments for a
current project is a very bad
way to go about things.
Not only that, but there are
indeed MAC users involved in DynAPI as well as Win32 and Linux.
3) Java: Probably our best bet, as it is indeed
open platform. Correct me if I am mistaken, but can you
not use ActiveX object within
Java? If so, the code parsing/HTML display would NOT be a
problem.
The Enterprise edition if
Visual Basic (which we use here) come with a license to re-distribute the
IE
browser object (I believe it
is version 4.0) which means that someone (such as myself) could
create
an ActiveX browser object for
use with Java.
In conclusion my humble opinion is that we should
most definitely go
with Java for it is cross-platform and quite robust in it's own right. Java is
also well know for extensibility.. i.e.; it is very easy to upgrade or replace
a single component (such as a newer browser object) without having to
re-write the rest of the program..
Thank You,
Doug Melvin
Integrated System
Solutions: Design, Development, Implementation and
Support
Creative-Workshop.com
