Re: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - anevsky

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Re: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app?

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Posted by anevsky on August 28, 2003 at 21:56:33

In Reply to: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? posted by BillyBuck on August 28, 2003 at 17:05:02:

Actually, I don't think it is ideal for a few reasons. The UI interactions on a webapp are too minimal. Things like drag and drop, docked/undocked windows, tool sets, etc are a joy to work with when they are done correctly.

I do want a lite version of the app to run on Mysql/PHP however - but it would be for browsing only at this point, as synching the databases would not be fun. I plan on running this lite version on my Sharp Zaurus PDA (a linux based PDA, mine has a gig of memory and Apache/PHP/Mysql.

Serious data entry is no good on the web unless you use serious client scripting to accomplish that. I, personally, loathe javascript and wouldn't want to be on a project which made too much use of it. I've seen what happens when someone tries to make a really usable web interface with client side scripting - you end up with an app which is tied to not only a particular vendor's web browser, but all too often, a particular version of it. Javascript, again, could have been great as a Self type programming language but its implementation is terrible.

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-Adam

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Topic - Engineers WANTED for open source app! - anevsky 14:47:23 08/28/03 (16)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - reverber 11:32:34 08/29/03 (2)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - xyc05 05:34:14 10/18/03 (1)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - Rod M 15:50:57 08/29/03 (0)

OK, some more issues.... - Penguin 17:48:43 08/28/03 (4)

Re: OK, some more issues.... - anevsky 21:48:29 08/28/03 (0)

Re: OK, some more issues.... - Rod M 18:56:06 08/28/03 (2)

This could be a service only available to contributors :-) - Penguin 05:04:56 08/29/03 (1)

Druther have the Yoyo ;-) (nt) - Ivan303 05:59:06 08/29/03 (0)

why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - BillyBuck 17:05:02 08/28/03 (1)

Re: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - anevsky 21:56:33 08/28/03 (0)

Interesting....and timely - Rod M 16:35:11 08/28/03 (2)

Re: Interesting....and timely - anevsky 17:20:25 08/28/03 (1)

Re: Interesting....and timely - Rod M 19:02:20 08/28/03 (0)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - korneluk 15:37:01 08/28/03 (1)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - anevsky 17:01:59 08/28/03 (0)

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Re: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - anevsky 21:56:33 08/28/03 (0)

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