[dba-Tech] The state of the web

Hi Jim

So true.

My latest small apps were created in LightSwitch and deployed to an external
host running at a ridicously low monthly charge even though it operates
ultra reliably.
I never communicated with the client other than by e-mail, and finally
posted the URLs to the apps to be launched with SilverLight on the client's
mix of Mac and Windows computers.

Can't be easier, except if the new HTML5 client of LightSwitch had been used
but I'm not there yet.

/gustav


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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 4. december 2012 21:04
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Emne: [dba-Tech] The state of the web

The web world is more than ever becoming "the" computer world. Most
development is now done on the web. Whether the Cloud will eventually
replace most in-house server based systems is debatable and will require
much more security, management and backup features before it will be
completely trustable.

Apple, via Steve Jobs, stopped the whole advance of plug-in technology which
was patching up browser functionality. It was not done for altruistic
reasons but to stop third party application from skipping the Apple toll
booth. But it did have a very important unexpected side-affect. It made
browser designers dependant on open standards, superfast browsers, gave them
the ability/responsibility for controlling security, that plug-in would
never allow and the dominance of HTML5 and CSS3.

Whether Mark Zuckerberg, likes or dislikes HTML5 is not important as the
proprietary insecure plug-in world of the past is dead and dying...in fact
he is trying to buck the tide. How many users will allow another vulnerable
plug-in to install on their system so they can play a game or two? The other
option is to use a proprietary server language. It can be built very fast
but it does not take long before thousands of users will grind the whole
system to a stop and then huge farms of special servers have to
integrated...very expensive to own and very expensive to maintain. Those
type of application solutions, on so many levels are no longer workable.

The new web world is more and more evolving into distributive open
standards, where data presentation is managed on the browsers and delegating
servers for only managing the data marshalling, gathering and storing. 

http://www.thesecuritypractice.com/the_security_practice/2012/11/in-defense-
of-html5-1.html

Jim