> > Do people/customers really want desktop apps? Why put any resources > into what seems to be the declining market in our industry? >
Yes, people who want to work offline occasionally, folks who want apps that can leverage local COM resources and APIs more freely, etc. The impression that customers are 'demanding' web apps is kind of a joke. Customers want apps that do things for them. It is industry that is pushing the "how to" trends, because of the perception that deploying web apps is so much easier than desktop apps. This is true to a point but the state of the art is really more sophisticated now, and has made both routes equally a PITA. :) I am only recently beginning to enjoy building web apps. A trend I'd like to see more of: www.cappuccino.org No html! no CSS! A unified programming language and model for writing code! Woo-hoo! I'm not sure Objective-J is the answer, but the approach is intriguing. I really like it. F# had a web tools project once upon a time that used quotations to "generate" javascript on the fly as it was rendered to a browser. That's kind of like what Objective-J is doing, except Objective-J is actually trying to do away entirely with all the other "languages" involved in rendering a view via the DOM. Now that's ambition! - Bob > > > -- > Stephen Russell > > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > CIMSgts > > 901.246-0159 cell > -- "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
