HTML5 promises a lot but doesn't (yet?) seem to deliver much more than
was available (with IE) back around 2005. Every advance to richer
content falls at the same hurdle - security. One of the potentially most
promising (if ugh!) was vbscript at the browser but its dependence on
ActiveX and access to Windows objects like FSO, WMI makes it a security
no-no, add no cross-browser support and that finishes it. Some browsers
now offer xmlhttp which was one of IE's strengths but the same-source
rule is a big restriction (the limited exceptions are really only useful
in an intranet environment, where they are unnecessarily cumbersome).
I do wonder whether the only way to offer rich content at the browser is
by using custom browsers securely linked to in-house (or in-cloud)
servers. In which case you might as well use VFP!
On 06/12/2013 16:49, Alan Bourke wrote:
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
HTML/CSS/JS are the winning standard.
Third party apps running in the browser - such as Adobe Flash - will
disappear;
... which is a shame in some ways as they at least presented a level
playing field so people could get rich content in browsers without the
staggering amount of complication and heartache that is involved in
doing it with HTML/CSS/Scripting. In other ways of course these plugins
present their own problems. But ultimately one would hope that the
future lies in HTML5 and Javascript, if HTML5 ever makes it out the
door.
java applets are almost dead.
Thanks to fargin' Oracle.
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