Dear Hilaire
Am 22.02.12 10:38, schrieb Hilaire Fernandes:
Sometime I wonder if writting application like DrGeo could be
reasonnably doeable with html5?
Without knowing your feature set in detail, but have a look for instance
at the following SVG editor:
-> http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/
Although this does not nearly cover the features of your software, it
shows amazingly what can be done with the HTML5 and SVG.
Whatever, html5 are really desktop application downloaded at runtime. We
are still moving in circle since 40 years.
In some way you are right, some sort of things are being reinvented for
new underlying technologies over and over again. Nevertheless, IMHO the
development also exposed several sustainable advantages. As Hannes
mentioned, the browser became a universal client for any applications,
reducing the need to adapt applications for different operating system
or other basic technologies. As far as I understand for instance Googles
vision, it should even become the runtime environment of the user
interface of the operating system.
Besides, and this is especially true for mobile devices, using a
client-server architecture the computation power and data storage shifts
more and more to the server/cloud instead of the desktop. This is a
large advantage for developers and system engineers for maintenance and
operation especially when deploying a new version of a software as there
is no software installed on the client directly.
Cheers,
Chris
