Paul G. Allen wrote: > > I've found that if I want something that will run on, and/or be accessed > from multiple platforms, and have a GUI interface, a web front end is the > best way to do it. There's no windows and dialogs to create, no GUI toolkit > needed, no platform interoperability problems for the GUI, and > changes/upgrades are far easier.
I contend that web front ends are amongst the worst. A web browser is a very poor generic application interface. There are too many random differences in browsers and the way they interpret HTML. So not only do you have to test your application on various platforms, but on various application front end rendering agents (what the rest of us normally call browsers). Of course, in a perfect world, all the tools would have CLI interfaces will well-defined interfaces, so the interested parties can write whatever GUI front ends they want. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
