Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 08:17:03 CDT 2009
But then, Firefox comes along with Prism so you can use web-applications like desktop applications! How odd is that? Susan H. > Jim, > > I agree with you on the paradigm shift to web applications as opposed to > desktop applications. In most cases however, those coming from a > desktop-based environment tend to have a hard time transitioning because > desktop apps tend to grab all of the data at once since there is often no > need to take into account accessing network resources and all processing > is > done on the local machine. With a web-based approach one has to understand > the client-server interaction.