Let me rephrase that a little ;-) Now if only "Internet Explorer" would come to the party and consistently support CSS2 :(
I am a PHP developer as well. Actually, I'd much rather do Delphi work, but the industry pushes me towards web work, which I actually don't like at all, compared to Delphi, but I "have" to do it... Creating web apps seems to be the way a lot of people want to be going, but really it's a pain to work with. For a starter you constantly have to fight IE, and IE7 doesn't make life any better, trust me, I hate the thing. Then working between 3 languages, PHP, HTML, Javascript is very time consuming and you are very limited what you can do. There are speed restrictions, and you might as well forget about fancy animated graphics, it's possible but requires so much more nasty Javascript code. Sure there are some frameworks out there that make life easier, but web apps are still very unpredictable (due to IE), and it takes a lot more code to make even the simplest apps compared to Delphi, you gotta constantly take security and hackers in mind, SQL injection... it never ends. I'd much rather be writing desktop apps. The big difference is, that Delphi is predictable 99.9% of the time, the web is not, the user might be using an old browser, might have cookies disabled, who knows what. There's CSS bugs to deal with, really web apps give you a headache when it comes to IE, I wish I could go back to Delpi ;-) On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:46 +1200, Phil Middlemiss wrote: > Yes, this is a very strategic area IMHO. Web based apps have the > potential to be the panacea of cross platform development. > This has been visible in the additions to Delphi over time, but I'm sure > there are many more areas to exploit in this area - such as something as > easy and quick to use as ROR but more powerful, all inside the Delphi > IDE. Although all the bits are there in Delphi to write powerful Web > apps, there are still many opportunities for improvement to make > developing killer web apps fast and easy. > > Now if only the browsers would come to the party and consistently > support CSS2 :( > > Phil. > > John Bird wrote: > > No one has mentioned yet......but it seems to me the other real platforms > > for desktop applications would be wonderful to target for Delphi if it were > > feasible. This is the "holy grail" of software development - GUI software > > that could run on any platform. Think Windows. And OSX. And Linux...... > > > > So far a bit of this market has been done by Java and browser based > > software. I personally am very impressed by the quality of a lot of the > > browser software, think of the banking/airline and Google applications > > (Gmail etc). For this reason I do all my help in HTML as the same files can > > be used for help or put on the web. Maybe this is the way it will go more > > in future....browser based rather than any compiled language? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
