I think you'll be surprised how far HTML5 has come along. Between the canvas tag, SVG and WebGL, I struggle to think what your graphics-intensive app may do that those technologies can't do effectively. They've all been supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari for many versions now, and all largely supported in IE9+ except WebGL which is coming in IE11.
Some links - http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ http://www.chartjs.org/ On 11 September 2013 09:04, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg (H), sometime earlier this year I finally reached a point where I can > create a WPF app at roughly the same speed as a WinForms app. It took years > to find the right patterns, use command routing wisely, overcome the > countless quirks, and finally become proficient at coding UIs in XAML by > hand. I have loads of pre-baked WPF code now to help me write new apps > faster. I have found that WPF is only superior if you need a really "rich" > UI with elastic layout, shading, opacity, resizing and animations. > Otherwise, WinForms are robust and familiar, the designer is fabulous and > the DataGridView control is a dream compared to the tangled nightmare of the > WPF DataGrid -- Greg (K) > > > On 11 September 2013 00:51, Greg Harris <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> Basic HTML will be simple CRUD table maintenance and reports. >> Rich interaction, not in the initial plan. >> >> Winforms - Yes at this stage that is what I am thinking, the app needs to >> do some extensive custom graphics which at this stage I intend to build up >> with GDI+ as it is what I have used before, but I am open to suggestions. >> >> I may go with WPF but that is not the way I am thinking just now. As the >> client wants to keep it cheap and fast. >> >> I like to look at job trends to see where the industry is going and >> WPF/Silverlight has not been happy for 2 years: >> http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=wpf%2Csilverlight&l=silverlight >> >> Regards >> Greg (H) >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> At this point I am working on a new app, it will have an HTML web site >>>> for basic stuff and a downloadable win forms app for the intensive stuff, I >>>> would much rather do it with SL but MS has so upset the SL story that it is >>>> just not going to happen! >>> >>> >>> Oh boy, another scary response. Will the html "basic stuff" have any kind >>> of rich interaction? Also, you really mean WinForms and not WPF? >>> >>> Greg (K) >> >> >
