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Thanks to Mike Kozlowski's blog ( http://klio.org/marks/ ) for this fine message from Microsoft, via Tim Sneath: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/tims/PermaLink.aspx/d9acfb8f-366e-4be1-b945- b5f1eacc8579 "1. The web browser is dead for anything apart from internet sites... and even on the internet, its value will be reduced.... I can quite imagine that in five years time when you go to a large commercial website, the HTML view will be a secondary option for broad reach, with an Avalon version becoming the default for most (Windows) users." That's an interesting contrast with Tim Bray: http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/11/03/CuiBono "Iâ??ve observed here that both IT admins and end-users prefer browser-based apps to traditional compiled clients, for everything except content creation. Every time, I get emails and incoming pointers from people saying â??You just donâ??t get it, the Web interfaces are so tired, we really need a richer UI paradigm.â? The interesting thing is that these reactions are alwaysâ??every time, without exceptionâ??from developers. Not once has an end-user type person written in saying they wished they could have a richer interface like the kind they used to have in compiled desktop apps.... I have all sorts of theories about whose interests are being served by these efforts to take us back to the client/server era, but I know for sure that itâ??s not about making users happy. Nor the IT staff either." Also worth examination: http://w-uh.com/index.cgi/articles/031102-emperors_new_code.html Lots worth thinking about, whatever your perspective. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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