Tracy R Reed wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
The downside is that webbrowsers are so prevalent, and follow a rough
standard, that everyone thinks that is the best way to go to be
cross-platform. And it stinks.
It isn't the best way to go to be cross-platform?
I suppose it depends on what you are doing. When distributing an
application, they best way to reach a universal audience is to use a
standards based web application. It is the easiest way to make an
application available to the greatest number of users. On the other
hand, it has many limits. When those are met, then I suppose Java fills
the gap in most programmers minds. I personally still roll up some
perl/python scripts, and tell people to install some version of those
tools, or roll their own, but I deal with back end processes and other
server admins not end user(lost my patience there a long time ago).
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