Thanks a lot, guys, for the detailed messages, which is very helpful. Now I know where to start at least.
My understanding is that platform decides which tools / frameworks would be available to you. So that is a big decision for a starter... Robert On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Chris Upton <[email protected]> wrote: > And remember, large numbers in the life sciences and in bioinformatics use > Mac OS X. > > Chris > > > On 9/25/09 11:34 AM, "J.W. Bizzaro" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > The separation of server-side software (e.g., PHP, ASP, etc.) from > client-side software (browser and plugin) is an aspect of the Web that has > made it so flexible and successful. As long as the software that you choose > to run on the client-side (e.g., JavaScript and plugins such as Flash, etc.) > is widely supported on multiple platforms, it doesn't matter what you choose > to run on the server-side. > > So, you can set up a server that runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Commodore > 64, or whatever, and people can access your site on any platform that > supports the client software that you use, if you even use anything beyond > HTML. > > Technically speaking, many bioinformatics portals work on the > "model-view-controller" (MVC) paradigm, intentionally or not. Here's some > more information on the topic: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller > > Applied to the Web, the model resides on the server (e.g., in MySQL), while > the view and controller reside on the client (e.g., browser and plugin). > > If you choose to use a plugin and not just JavaScript, be sure that it is > supported on multiple platforms. Microsoft solutions are always best > supported on Windows computers, including plugins. Mac OS is a second-class > citizen to Microsoft, and Linux barely exists. For Linux, it is often left > up to a third-party developer (e.g., Novell) to develop clones of Microsoft > applications (e.g., Novell Mono attempts to bring .NET to Linux). ActiveX > and Silverlight are two examples of where Microsoft doesn't make their own > plugins for Linux (AFAIK). > > Cheers, > Jeff > > Robert lzw wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am a newbie to web design for bioinformatics and going to design a > portal > > web page similar to the following link: > > http://www.eh3.uc.edu:8080/GenomicsPortals/ > > > > It looks that the above portal was designed on Unix/Linux using > JavaScript > > and Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 processing datasets in MySQL database. As I > only > > have MS Visual Studio 2008 Prof software, I plan to go with ASP.NET and > > ADO.NET to do it for processing datasets in SQL databases. > > > > Does anybody know if this will work? Can the portal web pages designed > based > > on Windows .NET framework be browsed without any problem on Linux/Unix. > > i.e., other platforms than the Windows? Regardless, any suggestions on > how > > to start designing such a portal web page (books, online resources, > > framework and tools) would be highly appreciated. I need a general, > correct > > direction to follow. Thank you very much in advance. > > > > -- > J.W. Bizzaro > Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: +1 978 621 8258 > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
