Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 00:48:14 CDT 2009
IMO this discussion is more properly framed not under "Web development" but under "Browser-based development". Whether or not your app talks to the world, if it has a bunch of users even all sitting in the same offices, there are obvious advantages to going with the browser-based paradigm, including but not exclusive to: 1. updates are instantaneous -- no copying to each machine or anything silly like that. Fix it in one place and presto -- the users see the fix on their next click. 2. support for mixed computer platforms -- Windows, Vista, Leopard, Linux, who cares? 3. UI consistent with stuff they (probably) already know. A.