Thanks, Dave, for the overview. So far, I don't need any of those functions...using PDF's comes the closest, but I still haven't had a requirement to generate PDF's from content...and I think I can pull that off without too much of a problem in 4.5.
Still no compelling reason to upgrade...I just build apps that basically add, update, and delete db content and send automated emails for promotions, announcements, etc. All the cutting edge stuff, I don't need to use, because so far, my clients don't either. AJAX and CFC's sound intriguing, but I decided to spend $1000 today on a new Canon Digital Camera and keep using 4.5. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: what if the next CF... > Guess I'm just stuck in the past... FWIW, tell me one thing that is > dramatically different on the "user end" of a website experience that > can be done with CF7 that can't with CF 4.5 (anything not native to > CF7 doesn't count) > > Not throwing out a challenge, but genuinely wanting to know what > difference to the end user working with CF7 makes...what's the biggest > difference in the sites you build? Off the top of my head, here are a couple of examples. You can use CFFORM to generate Flash forms, XML forms, and provide additional functionality within HTML forms. You can use CFDOCUMENT to generate PDF output very easily. But really, there's nothing especially different about the "user end" functionality between CF 4.5 and CF 7, just like there's nothing especially different about that functionality between CF 2 and CF 4.5. That has more to do with the primitive, limited nature of HTML than anything else. The real work in any significant web application isn't what the user sees, but what the application actually does. CF 7 can do a lot more than CF 4.5. If you want to be able to interact with other services, you need XML parsing, you may need SOAP and WSDL support; CF 7 has that, CF 4.5 doesn't. If you want to provide greater reliability through multiple instances, CF 7 supports that, CF 4.5 doesn't. If you want to easily integrate with the vast amount of functionality available through Java, CF 7 supports that natively and CF 4.5 doesn't. If you want to support Flash or Flex RIAs, CF 7 provides Flash Remoting and web services, CF 4.5 doesn't. If you want to do something as common as publish an RSS feed, CF 7 lets you easily generate XML, CF 4.5 doesn't. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248918 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
