so, I should just tell my client, that while I can build a 300+ node tree in
java which will load in 20 seconds,
I am only willing to give him a JS based 300+ node tree which will take two
minutes to load.
This is what you are saying?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Loading External Content (Remote Scripting)
> "there is NO reason to stop using java" ????
>
> The last thing any quality developer should be doing is selling and
> promoting a platform that is inherently dysfunctional in the "very near
> future", unless of course you bill your clients to re-engineer their
> applications to recomply with ever changing standards.
>
> I think we have a responsibility to gaze into the "very near future" and
> glean the expected landscape and develop to support it. Windows X/IE6 is
> launching in the next 4 months, max. When it hits it will garner 20%+
> market share fairly quickly. We banter back and forth on weather we
should
> turn our backs on a browser with 3/10 of a single percent penetration and
> "knowningly" develop and sell solutions today that will be significantly
> disfunctional in 3-5 months?
>
> Personally, I strongly disagree. Show your value to your client by
> demonstrating the ability to map the future and carve solutions that, as
> gracefully as possible, carry them over the rough edges without causing a
> lose of services to "their clients"!
>
> Ray
>
>
>
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