[dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera.

Hi Shamil:

You are right of course that no matter what the changes are, now and in the
future for computers there will always have a requirement for an OS to
manage things. 

You are also right that it is always better to code at the lowest possible
level as it results in a faster and smaller program. The downside is being
limited to a single platform. 

The higher level the coding the more complex and therefore slower the
performance. The upside is to an application is it being available on
multiple platforms.

"Write once, run everywhere" has been the Holy Grail of the computing
community since the beginning of computers and whether we have reached that
capability or even are coming close, is a point of much debate.

Jim
   
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Shamil
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift
to WebKit, you can thank Opera.

 Hi Jim --

Yes, that link  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752041
(v=vs.85).aspx  is correct.

I must note I haven't written anywhere in this thread that my customers have
this technology as the core one for their businesses.
I must also note that from the sample links I have provided follows that
*conceptually* similar "automation" approach is implemented for all the main
browsers, and that "automation" implementations allow to have generic
declarative/scripting web apps testing tools as Selenium and WatiN and
others, and such tools would be used more and more if/when HTML5 and browser
would become the main (web) apps hosts as you're expecting...

As for "write once, play/run anywhere" - we have different
expectations/views on that subject AFAIS: I have written already that I do
not expect HTML5/browsers to become the only apps hosts nor in the near
future, nor in the far future. Native mobile and desktop apps are to exist
forever because as far as I suppose they will always be the main drivers of
innovations. The mobile and desktop apps can "morph" their shapes as mobile
and desktop devices getting their "shapes morphed" but that morphing will
not change their nature. Of course the new types of apps will definitely
appear. What that will be? I do not know...

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Четверг, 14 февраля 2013, 14:18 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>Sorry for the confusion. 
>
>Are you sure this is right?
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752041 (v=vs.85).aspx
>
>Running a web browser object from the desktop? It is just a one-off
>application. IMHO, that is not where the market is heading and the number
of
>supporting clients will only continue to diminish. I think it is not a good
>long-term business strategy.
>
>Many years ago built and ran a browser, in a Visual Basic application for a
>government client. Adding new features has obviously improved.
>
>My clients are asking to be able to update their websites in real-time and
>be able to access their inventory and invoicing from anywhere. And they
like
>the idea of not having to update their hardware or having to install
>specialty software to get all these bells and whistles. 
>
>In the short run it sounds like a good idea but my big clients are(were)
too
>security conscience and my small ones are too cheap to go that route. ;-)
>
>Jim 
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