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Hi Michael Michael said: Umm, this seems to confirm Tim Bray's "cui bono" suspicions. Does the IT industry need a Next Big Thing, or are end users suffering real pains that Avalon, etc. cure? I'm wide open to being persuaded that HTML [expletive deleted] as a UI, but I'm just seeing "oooh, cool" and "we need something new" and "disagreement is ludicrous" arguments. Didier replies: I my labs I conducted some usability studies and the result is obvious, the "dummy terminal" paradigm is not what people desire, it is what is offered to them. Having the choice, they prefer more usable and responsive solutions. Usually these solutions are offered by "fat client" applications. More particularly, most of these "fat client" needs are already there in the browser. It's only that the "intranet" industry did a very bad job with the current architecture created to serve the needs of the IT department not the needs of the end users. I do say that developing applications it is impossible to do with current web technologies but that actual fat server/thin client applications are not what people desire. It was probably good for the IT department (more control) but surely not good to the users. I hope Microsoft's move becomes a wake call to the other parties that slept for too long. Michael said: And then in 5 years someone else will counter with an "efficient procedural programming environment that YOU control" or whatever. The declarative - procedural war has been going on for at abut 30 years now, and it will probably go on after there is peace in the Middle East and the US has paid off the national debt. (i.e., forever). Didier replies: Sure, this is what we call progress with good and false starts. Defining a hierarchy of visual object is a good match for an XML based language doesn't it? Cheers Didier PH Martin http://didier-martin.com
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