[Tfug] Browser based UI's

[keith smith]

If you want to create a browser based application and make it easier to create, why not use Flex? 

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Keith Smith


--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Browser based UI's
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:57 AM
>   this is a good point, but
> historically the commercial browser
> environment resisted the introduction of java to the
> UI.  GWT is an
> interesting evolution in that it relies on web standards
> like HTML and
> Javascript.  There are many situations I see where
> people are building
> web apps for a limited user set and would probably save a
> lot of money
> just by deploying in Java.
> 
>   -jmz
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bexley Hall<bexley401 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >>   have you tried GWT?
> >
> > But that's part of the issue.  What's the point of a
> browser
> > based interface if you have to rewrite all your
> applications in
> > Java?  I.e., to me, the beauty of a browser interface
> would
> > be that it could represent a "dumb client" and leave
> all the
> > smarts server side.  If you're going to deliver the
> application
> > to the client (instead of just the *interface*), then
> why not just
> > build a VM that runs on bare iron and code directly in
> that
> > (and skip talking to http://localhost).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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