[Tfug] Browser based UI's

[Joshua Zeidner]

  Hi Bexley,

   I think those questions are too general to address- depends on the
application.  A PL is a function of its design goals, history, and the
environment in which it was born.  Java was initially intended to live
in the browser.  C was initially intended to provide platform
independence.  Assembler was initially designed to make programming
easy.

  Thanks, jmz

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Bexley Hall<bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joshua,
>
>>   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.
>
> 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*?
>
>
>
>
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