Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Feb 18 13:14:59 CST 2013
Hi Shamil: Thanks for the article. Whether there are too many applications out there...there always will be and that is a good thing...one company grows from the creativity and sometime the ashes of another. I wish to make a comment particularly on the software packages attached to the article. I just picked a number at random and checked into how they were supported and designed. Pandora, for example: a car support application. It is built on Linux and has a web interface...and I have no idea to the rest of the BE or Middleware but I would suspect other OSS products. I am sure that most of these applications are built on top of Linux servers and it is worthy to note that all these companies have extensive websites for selling and managing their products. Whether these companies disappear or thrive is always a question but the web designers will be a major part of their success or failure. Aside: One of the points that been brought up in the pass and contributes to the costs of building any website or web UI has been caused by the failing of Microsoft to keep to the standards...which is why enforced standardization packages like Webkit, in this business have been so important. You can look at the heading of every businesses websites (and every page) and similar coding is placed in the header: <!--[if lt IE 7]><html lang="en-us" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]><html lang="en-us" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8]><html lang="en-us" class="no-js lt-ie9"><![endif]--> <!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> The above links and associated code has undoubtedly cost every company thousands of dollars to design and maintain and this is why there is such a demand for MS to get with program. Whether IE10 will be the solution is yet to be proven. As you are specifically (predominantly) a Windows programmer, having Microsoft standardize is more important to you than to those of us who are generalists in the business. Sorry for going off on a tangent but certain observations became apparent from studying your posted article. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:54 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera. Hi Jim -- That's a good article, thank you for the link. AFAIU it states that web apps (HTML5/CSS/Javascript) and hybrid apps will be the majority apps in the future. I'd still doubt they will - as IMO they will always be following some distance behind "A Whole New World Of Mobile Markets: Cars, Photos, TVs, Wallets And More" (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/16/which-markets-are-too-crowded-too-early-an d-just-right/). BTW, MS Web Browser Control Automation/DOM API interfaces represent an advanced option to develop hybrid apps. Thank you. -- Shamil