"Web technologies bring some advantages in the software life cycle, mainly distribution."

Very succint. Not to deprecate a great technical development over the years, that makes even complete non techies capable of using the computer, which desktop GUI does not enable easily, applet was a compromise but did not scale well.��

But its an overkill fed into enterprise mainstream, which actually do have IT depts and ability to manage an automated client update/ installations. Server side of the web tech is great and should be the mainstay for a re-imagined desktop client and bring back iPad like UI experience to the desktop, tablet et als.



On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 22.02.2012 um 10:34 schrieb Janko Miv��ek:

> S, Christoph Wysseier pi��e:
>
>> St��phane Ducasse:
>
>>> I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and
>>> others works (for iPad = $$$$) is important.
>
>> Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets
>> and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be
>> far more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies
>> also in this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own
>> strategy I do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for
>> the development of such applications.
>
> I agree completely that web based techologies are where we should go
> because we have advantage here with Smalltalk while for any kind of GUI
> we are off.
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I like Smalltalk the language for its orthogonality and power. If I hear a statement
like "we should go <enter hype term here> because its the future!" I have the feeling
that somebody wants some followers on his or her main area of interest.

Web technologies bring some advantages in the software life cycle, mainly distribution.
But they put additional burden in the GUI development because it's more complicated than traditional GUI's.
Thus, you'll need a bigger user base for your application to make it worth the additional efforts in development.
Additionally there are some areas where web GUI didn't catch up with traditional GUI's at all.

Regards
Andreas