[Tfug] Browser based UI's

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:43:24PM -0700, Bexley Hall wrote:
 
> Let me rephrase this.  If a PL like Java had existed BEFORE
> "The Internet", (e.g., C vintage) would people have adopted a browser
> type model for deploying *real* (heavyweight) applications?
> Think about it.  There is nothing that explicitly ties Java to
> a "web based deployment".  You can run Java apps "locally".
> 
> Would developers rush to embrace such an environment -- with its
> performance issues, etc. -- *just* to save themselves the trouble
> of porting their (C, C++, Pascal, etc.) applications to a new
> "system"?  Or, wouldn't it be easier for them to develop
> libraries that "virtualized" the user interface and link those
> to their applications instead of virtualizing the entire *machine*?

Part of it is the overall speed people have easy access to now.  That's
not to say devices don't play games.  For example, Android does some
stuff to make things rather usable on the G1 that it doesn't need to
bother with for x86.

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Tom Rini