Re: Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-29 Thread Henry Law
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:35:05 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Mike Meyer I wonder could you guys stop cross-posting this stuff to comp.lang.perl.misc? The person who started this thread - a well-known troll - saw fit to post it there,

Re: Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-28 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
Mike Meyer wrote: >> I'd rather develop a native client for the machine that people >> actually WANT to use, instead of forcing them to use that >> little-fiddly web browser on a teeny tiny display. > > You missed the point: How are you going to provide native clients for > platforms you've never

Re: Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Meyer
Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: >> I think you're right - a web standard designed for writing real >> applications probably wouldn't start life as a markup for text. The >> only thing I can think of that even tries is Flash, but it's > What about Java?

Re: Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > I think you're right - a web standard designed for writing real > applications probably wouldn't start life as a markup for text. The > only thing I can think of that even tries is Flash, but it's What about Java? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CA

Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Meyer
Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >>> This can be designed much better by using iframes, maybe even Ajax. >> Definitely with Ajax. That's one of the things it does really well. > But then you're probably limited to the big 4 of browsers: MSIE, > Mozilla, KHTML/Safari,