Web programming tools (Dan Shafer)

[andu]

--On Friday, May 02, 2003 18:12:02 -0700 Dan Shafer <dan at eclecticity.com> 
wrote:

> You can escape from the ugliness of browser UIs at least three ways, none
> of which, unfortunately, involves RR/MC:
>
> 1. Use Java applets.
> 2. Use Flash.
> 3. Use Jython to create applets.
>
> Nos. 1 and 3 are similar except that 1 requires you to learn Java (which
> is hard) and 3 relies on Python (which is easy; in fact, I think it is at
> least as easy as Transcript, maybe easier, and is fully object-oriented).
>

The company which used to market Toolbook has renamed itself (E-learning or 
something ) and now markets a "solution" probably based on toolbook scripts 
and Java and of course XML. Trouble is Java and the browsers aren't getting 
along any better then say 5 years ago and. I remember seeing a bid from 
this x-Toolbook company in which they had different pricing (and 
guarantees) for supporting more then 1 version of IE. Large companies using 
Java and browsers for everyday work have to run the same version of IE (no 
Gecko based browsers) on thousands of computers and upgrade them all at 
once when upgrading their Java based software.
Outrageous as it sounds, they do it and pay big bucks for such "solutions".
So, the price of escaping from the ugliness of browser UIs comes at a price 
greater then learning a new language.
Confusing enough? ;-)

Regards, Andu Novac