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 GomezExile in waitingPremium,Ex-Mod 06-11
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Atlanta, GA | reply to drew
Re: [Chat] C++, Thinking out loud ... said by drew:I *hate* web browsers though. Absolutely hate them. None of them work as they should, there's no standardization. Form design on a desktop app is not only significantly easier, it's far simpler to handle input from. Any time you design a web app, no matter if it's standards compliant or not, there's at LEAST one of the browsers you have to add in some kind of hack for. I don't think my head's stuck in a box -- I'm open to new ideas. I'm just talking from a very low skill programmer's [insert word here for what I really am] perspective but mostly from a user's. The only thing I've seen from a web technology that's really made me go "Whoa..." was Flex. Even then, it's not *that* cool. That's strictly a matter of prioritization. What do you want vs. what does the customer want.. Odds are the requirements are vastly different, and one of opinion holders writes checks.
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GomezExile in waitingPremium,Ex-Mod 06-11
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Atlanta, GA | said by drew:Am I not a consumer? We are all both..
But the context is providing software solutions, and in the most part in an SAS environment.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm working on the assumption at this point of the thread diversion (perhaps it should be split?) that it's technology to back a business model.
Cool thing about a web business model is that it's not hard build an app.. The thing that sucks about a web business model is that "it's not hard build an app.."
Classic business models are based on IP (Intellectual property) you can protect that hinders someone from entering your chosen space. i.e. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple..
But the web space has little IP.. Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Yahoo, even Google.. None that's solid. There are some weak attempts, but there are no real IP barriers prohibiting any of us from attempting to enter any of those spaces..
The spaces are won by good timing getting there, and being agile to your consumer requirements once you are there..
If you want to play in this space, you have to play to win, and that means being on-top of the technology race, understanding what your users want, and deploying it as timely as possible.
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| But even the web 2.0 sites have desktop utilities that make the web app simply that much better.
Take TweetDeck as an example. While it's done in Adobe AIR, it's an app I run from the desktop and I don't browse to in a web browser. It consolidates many pages worth of Twitter AND facebook data for easy viewing.
I don't dismiss the viability of SAS (software as a service if I understand correctly) and its business model, I just don't think, nor do I want, web applications to be it.
Browsers are the bottleneck there and until Microsoft either gets off the stage and the WebKit guys join up with Mozilla and Opera dies or comes up with the "killer app" browser, I don't think we'll see the end of the consumer desktop application.
Maybe when the technology is there so I don't have to dick with things like CSS (All of you please tell me how on earth you like CSS after doing any kind of Windows or GTK (?) forms based development) to make a web app decent... I'm playing around with Symfony and doing their Jobeet "advent" calendar, but they completely disregard the style-side, because that's out of scope! While serious enterprise class desktop developers often, from my understanding, usually hook into forms and UIs created by real designers, the non-enterprise developers can still do a fantastic job without the same kind of bullshitting you have to do on the web.
I don't think the web technologies are there yet. That's all I'm saying.
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GomezExile in waitingPremium,Ex-Mod 06-11
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Atlanta, GA | said by drew:But even the web 2.0 sites have desktop utilities that make the web app simply that much better. Take TweetDeck as an example. While it's done in Adobe AIR, it's an app I run from the desktop and I don't browse to in a web browser. It consolidates many pages worth of Twitter AND facebook data for easy viewing. I don't dismiss the viability of SAS (software as a service if I understand correctly) and its business model, I just don't think, nor do I want, web applications to be it. Browsers are the bottleneck there and until Microsoft either gets off the stage and the WebKit guys join up with Mozilla and Opera dies or comes up with the "killer app" browser, I don't think we'll see the end of the consumer desktop application. Maybe when the technology is there so I don't have to dick with things like CSS (All of you please tell me how on earth you like CSS after doing any kind of Windows or GTK (?) forms based development) to make a web app decent... I'm playing around with Symfony and doing their Jobeet "advent" calendar, but they completely disregard the style-side, because that's out of scope! While serious enterprise class desktop developers often, from my understanding, usually hook into forms and UIs created by real designers, the non-enterprise developers can still do a fantastic job without the same kind of bullshitting you have to do on the web. I don't think the web technologies are there yet. That's all I'm saying. Point taken..
But the reason the apps are capable of platform is embedding rich rendering objects that use the same interfaces.. That just makes the case stronger for two key patterns in SAS and remote software design: MVC (Model View Controller), and Separation of Concerns.
That fat client exists because of the common, web standards based, interfaces.
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