- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:39:08 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> In the real world, HTML is used as the application language as well. > > But is that for lack of better alternatives? For intranet applications, it is because you can rely on a browser being present, so you don't have the hassle of installing software on every workstation, and the resulting DLL hell. In addition, for some reason IT managers trust the effectiveness of the browser/ECMAScript security model more than they trust that for Java or .NET, especially for externally sourced executables. You also need less tooling to start with scripted browsers, and it is easier to plagiarise other web sites' code. (My impression is a great deal of web coding is cut and paste.)
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