tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579772240267288367.post4629894713073893609..comments2023-06-05T08:45:12.716-04:00Comments on kwblog: Web Apps Are BetterKevin Berridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13759114853595462455noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579772240267288367.post-35481101437653560262009-03-17T08:21:00.000-04:002009-03-17T08:21:00.000-04:00I have to completely agree with you that web appli...I have to completely agree with you that web applications are much better.<BR/><BR/>At the place where I work, we constantly try to fit overwhelming amounts of data into a tiny real estate, and end up with a screen that is not only ugly, but becomes very unworkable very quickly. There have been numerous times where using a "web-style" flow layout would have helped us fit more data in a more readable and usable format. However, as you pointed out, the corporate world seems forever stuck with the same mindset for UI design that we've had for the past 20 years. Hopefully new technology like WPF will force us to reevaluate the way we create UIs. <BR/><BR/>I would also have to agree with the deployment benefits of a web application. With the trying times our economy is facing, no business is going to needlessly update hardware. I think it would be a lot more beneficial to use a lightweight web application and offload most of the processing onto a server. Who knows... maybe after a while this could have an additional benefit of weaning corporations off the expensive, heavyweight, proprietary operating systems as well. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579772240267288367.post-62944212405707621482009-03-16T16:25:00.000-04:002009-03-16T16:25:00.000-04:00Yeah. I probably should have made it two posts. ...Yeah. I probably should have made it two posts. Or just edited it down... But, since it broke down into little headings I figured it was passable.Kevin Berridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13759114853595462455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579772240267288367.post-34381750747934893882009-03-16T16:17:00.000-04:002009-03-16T16:17:00.000-04:00Wow, long post. I guess you got over your lack of...Wow, long post. I guess you got over your lack of motivation. :-)<BR/><BR/>Granted I have very very little desktop development experience, one of my main pain points was always the intertwining of data models, business logic, and presentation logic. It didn't seem like this "should" be any worse in a desktop app, but it did seem like most tutorials or examples had it this way. Having the presentation be client side, away from your servers, seems to have pushed the separation of concerns issue much earlier. Granted, now a days people want more and more "rich" user interfaces resulting in numerous client side technologies (flash, silverlight, adobe air, javafx, zillions of crazy javascript libraries, etc) but the initial idea is the same.<BR/><BR/>interesting post.Benjamin P Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com