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.
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