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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: January 30, 2003 HTML's Time is Over. Let's Move On. (Boxes and Arrows) -- "We have used incredible ingenuity to make up for the faults of HTML by putting all of the real processing effort on the server side, but the time has come to create a new system that is low bandwidth, utilizes a single code base for all platforms, and is componentized enough to make updating and customizations easy using internet-based distribution."
Reader Comments...
It's true that creating efficient application software via HTML is often hard, but it can be done fairly well (see Oddpost), and simple interfaces will work cross-platform/browser, even as far as things like mobile phones, which offers some huge advantages over conventional desktop software. Flash works well for some things, although creating a consistent interface without manually fiddling with the position of every last item can be difficult, as it's aimed at those working visually rather than structurally. The CMS systems I sometimes work on in my day job would be able to do far more if they were produced as conventional desktop applications rather than via a web interface, but they'd also cost more to produce and involve vastly more technical support. Let's face it, desktop applications are still horrible to produce - go and read Joel On Software for a while if you don't believe me.
Oddpost requires Internet Explorer 5.0 (or above) for Windows. Posted by: Hyse on January 31, 2003 12:15 PM
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