Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Dec 5 20:18:07 CST 2012
Hi Gustav: Hasn't Adobe released, free, a product designed to replace Flash and potentially SilverLight? http://www.geek.com/articles/news/adobe-release-their-own-html5-flash-replac ement-app-called-edge-2011081/ So are you saying that LightSwitch is also a dead product? Too bad but does this situation seem like a strong case for just adopting OSS HTML5/CSS3? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:38 PM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The state of the web Hi Jim Most frustrating part is that no 64-bit version will be made. It appears that - for LightSwitch - focus now is on the HTML5 client: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/htmlclient /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 05-12-12 22:16 >>> 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