[dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera.

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Feb 14 23:35:47 CST 2013


 Hi Jim --

Yes, that link  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752041 (v=vs.85).aspx  is correct.

I must note I haven't written anywhere in this thread that my customers have this technology as the core one for their businesses.
I must also note that from the sample links I have provided follows that *conceptually* similar "automation" approach is implemented for all the main browsers, and that "automation" implementations allow to have generic declarative/scripting web apps testing tools as Selenium and WatiN and others, and such tools would be used more and more if/when HTML5 and browser would become the main (web) apps hosts as you're expecting...

As for "write once, play/run anywhere" - we have different expectations/views on that subject AFAIS: I have written already that I do not expect HTML5/browsers to become the only apps hosts nor in the near future, nor in the far future. Native mobile and desktop apps are to exist forever because as far as I suppose they will always be the main drivers of innovations. The mobile and desktop apps can "morph" their shapes as mobile and desktop devices getting their "shapes morphed" but that morphing will not change their nature. Of course the new types of apps will definitely appear. What that will be? I do not know...

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Четверг, 14 февраля 2013, 14:18 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>Sorry for the confusion. 
>
>Are you sure this is right?
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752041 (v=vs.85).aspx
>
>Running a web browser object from the desktop? It is just a one-off
>application. IMHO, that is not where the market is heading and the number of
>supporting clients will only continue to diminish. I think it is not a good
>long-term business strategy.
>
>Many years ago built and ran a browser, in a Visual Basic application for a
>government client. Adding new features has obviously improved.
>
>My clients are asking to be able to update their websites in real-time and
>be able to access their inventory and invoicing from anywhere. And they like
>the idea of not having to update their hardware or having to install
>specialty software to get all these bells and whistles. 
>
>In the short run it sounds like a good idea but my big clients are(were) too
>security conscience and my small ones are too cheap to go that route. ;-)
>
>Jim 
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