Re: [Scribia-dev] Carbon build probs

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

At 10:53 PM -0700 6/6/01, Lark wrote:
>
>But here's an idea for a platform-independent GUI - the web! Make a 
>CGI out of the scanner, implement the GUI as forms: bingo, eScribia. 
>Of course we'd keep all data on the server, so we can check how 
>everybody is training :-)

<RANT>

ehhh, web-based apps bug me. They are slow and not user-friendly. No 
matter how nice of a web form you make and how fast of a connection 
you have, it will never be as good as a real native application.
Example: Web-based email vs. Eudora.
Example: Newsgroups (MTNW) vs. Web message boards.
the list goes on.

And with the way things are headed these days, it turns out the main 
advantage of making a webbased app - platform independence - is being 
thrown out the window by developers who write for IE Windows only. 
What idiots.  So now they have writted a crippled app - confined to a 
browser window on a single platform that cant use your nice 
2000-generation OS features - and the only advantage is you dont have 
to install it. But whats the point of that when everyone has 20 gigs 
of free HD space and DSL connections? Clueless.

</RANT>

I believe someone already has a web based CL stat tracker. He was 
asking for all the trainers a few months back. I didnt send him our 
list since i didnt want to encourage the competition and because i 
think webbased apps suck. :)

-Ben
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