Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Wed Dec 5 18:10:13 CST 2012
But MS Access 2013 is going to become "LightSwitch killer", isn't it? I mean MS Access 2013 native support for web apps development, web apps running within SharePoint Server/Office 365(?) and natively handling MS SQL Server backends... http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-access/archive/2012/07/30/get-started-with-access-2013.aspx -- Shamil Среда, 5 декабря 2012, 13:16 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: > > > > >LightSwitch looks like a great application allowing very quick development > but have not had an opportunity to use it myself. > > SilverLight is a browser plugin and though I have not used it, doubt that it > is allowed on all browsers and on all platforms? > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:33 PM > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: Re: [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 > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >