-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Davis wrote: | Does that change your opinion?
Not in the slightest. You can run the web server and browser on the same machine as you have presumably already been doing. (Unless you have been using the word browser to mean something other than a web browser). | It is not a web-based app, rather browser based. Browser apps are web based. Note that I never said the web server has to run on a different machine. However you do have that capability should you need it in the future. With a standard application, you can only make it remotely available either by some heavyweight solution such as VNC/RDP or by rewriting it. | Many brigades do not have net access at their stations, they might only | have someone there once a | fortnight, so it isn't viable. Also this app might also be used on a | notebook at a remote location...where there is often no mobile phone | coverage. The point is that networking is becoming more ubiquitous. It might take months or years, but eventually there will be more connections. So you can have a single standalone machine in the station running the app (both server and browser). But when it becomes network accessible in two years time, someone on the road with a cellphone will be able to access the data. Heck if you have two machines in the station, the second one will be able to access the web app on the first trivially. | In fact, my mistake too...it is written in ASP/VBScript/MSaccess because | that is the language I knew at the time. That's why it is browser based. I | have since moved on (ahead?) and use PHP/mySQL. A browser is a good environment to target. The display easily resizes, users can simply change things such as font sizes, printing is free, help is easy to integrate and CSS can make it beautiful without too much effort. The various web toolkits mentioned in the presentation I linked to make the web app be significantly less effort. One of the test apps written was a time tracker. For some of the toolkits, that was accomplished in 9 (yes nine) lines of code. | The choice was to embellish it (a bit) to incorporate some DHTML or rewrite | it from scratch so it is not browser dependent which to me seems like part | of the evolutionary process. Standard applications are a pain. They are significantly harder and more effort to write. (Wait till you learn about layout management or have to deal with people using different default font sizes). There are a few more things you can do in a standard app that you can't in a web app such as raw access to hardware, or very complex user interaction. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFhPQfmOOfHg372QQRAu4SAJ4iIWUY/Q+i1T13W/ajreegoXM0dwCgwOTg LQsAKL4pxcT0r/kVPMBBxyM= =/JOw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
