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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

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• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:42:24 -0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>
> In the standard modern architecture, you would use something like VFP to 
> talk to the relational database on the server side and generate an XML 
> view of the data. (XML+HTTP or XML+SOAP, depending on your tastes) Then 
> the client neither knows nor cares that the data is stored relationally. 
> And you can hook up dozens of different kinds of clients. A simple HTML 
> form one for the lynx users, a DHTML one for the IE 6 users, a VB one 
> for those willing to install a server app, a Java one for the Linux 
> clients, etc. It isn't browser OR VFP. It's using each at what it excels at.

This works only when the information exchanged and the behaviour
of the client is rather simple. As a corporate developer I have
not come across a client yet that I could have implemented
with a browser, not from a GUI capability point of view,
nor from a user interaction standpoint.

And often - this is a heretic opinion here - I would prefer
DCOM or CORBA over XML for client/middle tier interaction,
simply because XML/SOAP imposes a rather simple communication
model, unless one is willing to re-invent CORBA based on XML.
 
Karl

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