Op dinsdag 03-03-2009 om 16:17 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Prince Riley: > Reading the responses on this discussion thread, it appears the > 'religious war' you mentioned in your prior post was unavoidable.
Tha wasn't my comment. But now I realise that it was me that started this... What have I done, well, it's fpc-pascal... so it must be possible. > hile several traditional "desktop" application scenarios do still > exists that will likely always run directly on the O/S without a web > client front end, the direction of most major software application > development efforts I've witnessed in the past three years have all > targeted migrating the desktop GUI over to a web browser. Others in > the discussion thread have referenced several reasons for this shift > already, but the trends continue to follow the idea of pushing as much > of the presentation and processing layers onto the remote web > browser. So because everybody else does it, it's the right way to go? I think the trend will stop. One of the signs are the web-communities who are developing destkop-clients for their community now. (Was it hives?) > Finally, respectfully I must disagree with your comments that the > applications deployment approach " is only true for small > applets used by a broad public. " ignores the TOC and other economies > of scale afforded by portable web applications. Scott Trade and TD > Ameritrade are just two of several examples where sophisticated > trading desk and customer centric web-based applications are running > on 100,000s of web browsers. Just a few years ago these same > applications were shipped to clients and had to be installed and run > on their desktop PCs. Well, if you would make the application 'REST' it would simply mean that you distribute the application to the user-desktop every time you run it. How can that be easier then distributing it once?!? All you need is an single executable (or maybe even interpreted) and a system to distribute through the web. Other then distributing it on every use, as is done now. That we are in the IT-world as it is now, everything web-based, is based on political reasons and not technical reasons. Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
