This is gonna be tough to trim well.
Aw, phooey, I'll just delete it all and top post.
Your points are cogent and I'm not disputing them. But to reiterate, I'm
describing what *I* would do and why *I* would do it that way. And FWIW,
I do this stuff at work, so my position, while it may be _wrong_ in
technical detail, is nonetheless thought through to the best of my
ability.
There is a trade-off, as we all know, between development time and
niftiness of programs, and it ain't linear. Basic functionality can be
batted out. Zooming maps that work on all browsers and java
implementations take a different level of effort and testing, and may
not be the first feature to promise to marketing during the design
phase. And if your program is for internal use, you might even find that
zooming graphics are available without javascript and a browser.
There is a hell of a lot more to designing and writing c/s programs (at
least where I work) than putting whiz-bang keen-o stuff on someone's
box. There are a lot of time-to-roll-out and 80-20 (as in 20% of the
effort gets us 80% of the functionality and perhaps 110% of what anyone
will ever use) discussions.
This is why, if you want to really piss me off (far too easy these
days, alas --am I becoming a spiny old fart? Don't answer ...) you can
say something like:
"Our users will never accept that because ...
- it doesn't have drag and drop
- the entry widgets don't look like they do in XP
- they can't integrate it with their C# IDE
- it isn't Micro$oft <grrrrr>
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:18:20AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
-snip of thoughtful stuff by Jim-
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Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
It's funny that Bush and his clan whine about the cost of providing
social services to illegal aliens, but are willing to roll out the
humanitarian-speak when it comes to spending it on Iraqis who don't
even live here.
I can't for the life of me imagine what self-consistent underlying
philosophy could produce these two viewpoints, except "war is fun and
day labor is not."
- Todd Walton
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