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Posted by timothy on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:32PM from the only-as-strong-as-its-weakest-data-link dept.

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as 'hostile territory' for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser's weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform."

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Win32 API - we missed you so... (Score:5, Funny)

by BigHungryJoe ( 737554 ) writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:39PM (#26658107) Homepage

Can we please, please go back to the Win32 API? It was such a joy to use, and I've got a Visual Studio 6 license laying around here somewhere.

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Re:No Shit. (Score:5, Funny)

by Lennie ( 16154 ) writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:23PM (#26658731)

Because IE is a mess

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Re:Bring back a document-only based web! (Score:2, Funny)

by Dishevel ( 1105119 ) writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:39PM (#26658967)

Fuck all that http shit. Bring back Gopher!

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Re:No Shit. (Score:5, Funny)

by AKAImBatman ( 238306 ) * writes: <akaimbatman@gmaYEATSil.com minus poet> on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:45PM (#26659065) Homepage Journal

The moment you start using that 'ActiveX goodness'...
...you should be shot.

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Re:No Shit. (Score:5, Funny)

by RedK ( 112790 ) writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:46PM (#26659077)

That's why there's Java and swing! (let the moderation wars begin...)

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Web development is fast? (Score:5, Funny)

by bjdevil66 ( 583941 ) writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:00PM (#26659285)

"Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive,"
Did Internet Explorer suddenly disappear? I must've missed that today...

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Re:No Shit. (Score:2, Funny)

by cicatrix1 ( 123440 ) writes: <cicatrix1&gmail,com> on Thursday January 29, 2009 @07:23PM (#26660323) Homepage

Whoa where can I download this browser called Linux?

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Re:No Shit. (Score:4, Funny)

by Tubal-Cain ( 1289912 ) * writes: on Thursday January 29, 2009 @10:37PM (#26661905) Journal

kernel.org

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