Very interesting article indeed and, it seems, reasonably independent. Amazing to me is the belief, expressed in the article and this thread, that HTML/JS would be a 'mere' solution compared to thick client.
HTML5/CSS/JS offer exactly the same graphic look and feel as silverlight, flash and co. It'll take another six month and a couple of browser versions to obtain the same performance, but all the necessary bits (rotation, opacity, audio, video, ...) are part of the spec, just entered in the final run for 'ratification'. Despite what the article misstates, JS is: - fully object oriented (which makes it a little confusing initially for VFP devs like us) - very much fun to work with, the Browser being both the target platform AND the IDE, just like in VFP; you write a piece of code, copy paste into Firebug's command window, run it, set break points, watch variables and so on. OK, JS holds new concepts you need to get familiar with: closures, context, variable scope, global object, anonymous function, self executing function, etc. (though a framework like Prototype leverages most of them). Also HTML DOM has its peculiarities like event handling, CSS declaration/scripting, tags and attributes, etc., (while many of the concepts we learned from VFP can be recycled there). I saw many VERY clever guys in the JS world - particularly among the JS framework dev teams - very rigorous, method-oriented (naming and code styling conventions, ...) - able of writing very clearly, in a dozen lines of code, what you thought should have required a hundred. Last but not least, HTML/CSS/JS is a VERY STABLE environment, in 10 years I absolutely never saw 'unexplainable' errors or bugs, except with ... Internet Explorer before I seriously used the Prototype framework. So, frankly, I see absolutely no serious reason to overlook and/or underrate HTML/CSS/JS dev. Doing so, IMHO, is influenced by the 'serious dev' marketing, the same who consider loose typed and dynamic languages as second-class citizens. Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud Le 13 juin 2011 à 21:03, "Alan Bourke" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Here's a good article on the whole HTML5/JS versus Silverlight debacle: > > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/html5-centric-windows-8-leaves-microsoft-developers-horrified.ars > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
