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RE: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!

• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!
• From: "Gerben Rampaart (Casnet Rotterdam)" <Gerben@C...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:50:04 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <3DB026E8.4040303@p...>

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

Please don't be like that. I enjoyed lurking the browser thread discussion
very much. I went wrong when people (Whoever) tried to explain that massive
apps could not be carried by a browser interface. Although the thread went
from the lack of support of modern (read:XML) technologies in IE to browser
use in Enterprise size Apps, it has still allot of relevance. But let's
indeed talk about user interfaces and not (for example) Transact-SQL, the
two are simply a few tiers too far away from each other.

I think the point Len tried to make is (&& If Wrong = True Then Correct(Me))
that browsers can cupport some ... but not the whole of an Enterprise app.
What is the answer then ? Thin-Client ? Part desktop app and part browser ?
And when ?

Gerben.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]
Sent: 18 October 2002 17:21
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser
Wa rs!


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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