- From: john arbour <arbour42@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:40:12 -0700 (PDT)
Good discussion. My view of a web application, and i'm coming from the world of developing db apps in delphi, vb, access, paradox these last 10 years... When WHAT says "web apps", I consider that you are trying to build a cross-platform client platform which will let me easily build rich front-ends to db apps - like i'd do in Delphi. Using grids (are the "repeating form controls" in the Web Forms 2 spec synonymous with a grid?) and data-bound controls, it would allow fast, RAD development, prevent having to "submit" a whole page just to refresh a few form fields, and allow automatic app upgrades on the client (which is already part of the web experience). this is what Flash is slowly trying to morph itself into. If you can get the spec close to this, it would go over very big in the corporate world, which would no longer need to depend on VB, C#, Delphi or Access to build their bread and butter db apps, the ones they use day to day. This area has been one of the main bottlenecks in the well-known Munich gov't transition to Linux - they have so many db apps written in Access and VB. If they had been written in a cross-platofrm environment like WHAT, which gives a fast, RAD (data-bound control) framework, it would be SO SO much easier for them to switch OS's. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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