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

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:21:12 -0700
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> ...

>
> >From scratch and on your own nickel, build
> a commercial relational database system for
> large multi-juridictional agencies.
> It uses approximately 250 related tables,
> about 200 forms, 5500 fields, 24x7x365@99.99
> reliability real time. The table/form/field
> requirements expand with every release.

I'm talking about *user interfaces* and you are talking about the number 
of fields in a relational database. I'm talking about URL-addressable, 
cross-platform, portal-integrated, zero-install user interfaces and you 
are comparing JavaScript to Oracle.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. I'm out.

  Paul Prescod

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