My feeling is that jQuery makes up for a large number of the deficiencies. I won't claim it matches Flex, but it is very nice.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:55 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd really like to hear more about why you feel using >> HTTP/HTML/JavaScript is wrong and can't provide an elegant >> solution for certain problems. Can you elaborate? > > (I know that this is highly controversial and partly > subjective). > > Because the web has not been originally designed for web > applications and the whole history of AJAX is the history of > a set of hacks. For years, AJAX has just pursued things such > as drag-and-drop, that had been state-of-the-art in the > desktop for years. The average usability of an AJAX > application is still behind the one of a regular desktop > application of a few years ago and I weekly scream, while > using a web application made by others, because of a form > data loss or such (due to a temporary disconnection or a > back button) - or more subtle things such as a total break > of the application because it failed to completely download > some script. > > Of course one might argue that it's not AJAX fault, but a > fault of most of AJAX developers (but when it comes to Swing > and the many things that it did wrong in the past, the blame > was with Swing, not developers). > > On the contrary, my experience with Flex applications (just > to cite the most spread technology) is completely different > (e.g. Parley's rich client). Unfortunately AJAX and the > other stuff is there and won't go away, so we have to deal > with it. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
