Re: 5250 for iPhone

Trevor Perry wrote:

Every time I talk to an iCustomer, I get a different definition of
"web app".

I have one that says if it runs in a browser, it is a web app.

Correct.

That means, iSeries Access for the Web is a "web app".

It is.

I have another that says webfacing is a web app. Most of them are
refaced green screens doing nothing more than what the green screen
did.

This is a web app too.

I have others that say a web app has a fat client so I can deliver a
rich experience.

This is incorrect.

I have others that say it must be layered, and delivered over the
internet into a browser.

Layered is irrelevant ... delivered into a browser makes it a web app.

Which one is it?

All except the thick client.

I made the point about iPhone (sarcastically without identification)
being a Web app, because I have had people tell me that kind of crap.
Several people jumped on it, and said that. I agree that it is not a
web app.

You should know better ... you know what a web app is, don't you? It's not really a tough definition for someone familiar with the technology.

Let me say this again.

Isn't this a new take on the old "shove a pig up some lipstick"
trick?

I started with something that you MUST have been able to take as
silly, then you get all over me because I did not use the word
"internet"? It must be a serious day in midrange-L land..

And you spouted on about modernizing applications and how you can do all your administration tasks from the web, etc ... at which point you started to sound like you didn't have a clue what you were talking about.

david