Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:16:00 -0600
On 3/25/04 2:28 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> With all due respect, and with a nod towards the limitations of Web
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>> browsers as application environments, there are considerable reasons
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>> why browsers are used to access (not host) applications - namely, about
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>> the only cross-platform, network-based application toolkit.
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> That's only worthwhile if the application in question needs to run zero code
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> on the client, or is 100% pure, tested, cross platform Java.
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What?!
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Web browsers are used _more and more_ as the "access point" for applications
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that are hosted elsewhere (or even multiple elsewheres). And many (most)
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have some code that is executed at the client (like all JavaScript/Jscript.)
And if it's anything that does anythign beyond minor stateless applications,
then a browser is fine for this. But if you need a connection to an SSL VPN
that allows you to open an SSH tunnel so you can check on your server, a web
browser isn't going to cut it.
You'll also find that the javascript is used to set up the connection, and
not much more than that.
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PHP applications come to mind,including bloggers and other kinds of shared
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applications, with a wide mix of non-Java components. In fact, this is the
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fastest growing web application building environment mix.
Those are all stateless applications. They don't do anything without a
click, which is what a web server is...a giant stateless application server.
But most of the web UIs I get stuck using utterly suck, and change RADICALLY
in behavior depending on the browser I use.
john
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"Keecking butt fahr gudness"
Baldur's Gate
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