On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:06:17 +0100, dannym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No, the web is radically different. Retrofitting a gui app onto a web
>page will suck. I've seen it, some people did it for a (huge) app in our
Well, it depends. A couple of years ago I was faced with a web application
that needed to be written in record time and that dealt with about a dozen
of different tables with filtered/ordered views. One could easily see how
it could have been written for the desktop. What I did was sit down in my
rocking-chair for three days and think. I finally came up with acopy of
the Clarion for Windows model about templates (browse-edit-save-report)
and that is what I did using object oriented PHP.
What followed was a huge success and so far around 200 applications written
using the same basis, though of course evolving all the time. A skilled
writer can produce a basic multi-user database browse/update/report web
application in hours, the inofficial record of a coworker being 40 minutes
for a small call center CRM app. Almost from scratch. Yes, we do have
a code generator :)
My point is that the original idea was really taken directly from a desktop
approach. This is how I used to work with Clarion years back.
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