The trick is, don't make conclusions about the article based on its title.
I found comfort in his anger towards the difficulty of developing for current web application platforms. The situation is obscenely bad.
I found comfort in his anger towards the difficulty of developing for current web application platforms. The situation is obscenely bad.
Yes. I remember many years ago I wrote a web application for a swiss banks financial intelligence unit. It was only used by a handful of people and they wanted a really rich user experience, so I wrote -- in one day -- the complete application again as a fat client. It was simply better in every way. The main client said, "That's it! That's what we want!" The director of IT said, "That's a fat client. We can't have that in the bank." The web app was never terrible, but the fat client I made them was much better and easier to create.
Everyone here who is arguing that web applications are 100% as easy to produce as fat client applications are arguing out of ignorance.
1) Dealing with WinForms (or WPF) 2) Dealing with C#
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1) Dealing with Server-side code 2) Dealing with XHTML and CSS and JavaScript (and compressing them) 3) And dealing with IE, FF, Safari (let's leave Opera)