Re:Recreating the button
by jgrahamc on Thursday February 05, 2009 @06:50AM
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I strongly disagree that desktop clients have a bright future.
1. If you've ever tried to do cross-platform desktop client GUI work you'd know that getting it to look good on every platform is a nightmare. It's really no different from where we are with RIA.
2. Right now there's a large amount of work going into js frameworks that means that we'll see these techniques become standardized over time.
3. If you look at desktop clients there's actually a lot of innovation in terms of small UI components (see most things that Apple is doing) and so desktop clients are by no means static.
4. As js and the frameworks improve we'll see more and more applications move into the browser. At my current startup we are working on a very rich application and there was no question of doing a native desktop client, there was just no point tying ourselves to a specific OS.
1. If you've ever tried to do cross-platform desktop client GUI work you'd know that getting it to look good on every platform is a nightmare. It's really no different from where we are with RIA.
2. Right now there's a large amount of work going into js frameworks that means that we'll see these techniques become standardized over time.
3. If you look at desktop clients there's actually a lot of innovation in terms of small UI components (see most things that Apple is doing) and so desktop clients are by no means static.
4. As js and the frameworks improve we'll see more and more applications move into the browser. At my current startup we are working on a very rich application and there was no question of doing a native desktop client, there was just no point tying ourselves to a specific OS.