RE: GUI development language

You can build cute little applications in these new technologies, sure, but

they've not been around nearly long enough to base an enterprise system in
them.

The same exact thing could be said for AJAX, but AJAX relies on multiple
vendors (Microsoft, FireFox, Opera, etc) all agreeing to implement the same
new features in the same way (i.e. remoting) which hasn't happened to date.
With proprietary things like Flex3 all the browser needs to do is allow the
installation of a plugin.

I think the adoption of AJAX is in it's infancy still (though growing
rapidly) and that the aforementioned browser plugins will take over before
AJAX can fully mature. Sure AJAX is making it's way into ever framework out
there, but it is still in a two (maybe three) growth spurt.

But I guess it boils down to us both theorizing and neither one of us having
proof-in-the-pudding as of yet. These are just my predictions.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: GUI development language

Does anybody else agree with a prediction that AJAX (when coupled with

HTML

and CSS) is on it's way out?

No... at least not for many (8 to 12) years. _IF_ you're deploying an
internal-only application, and _IF_ your users have the latest technology,
and _IF_ your developers take regular trips to conferences to learn this
stuff, and _IF_ you don't mind running your business on the bleeding edge
then by all means, have fun. But the fact is that's not realistic. You can
build cute little applications in these new technologies, sure, but they've
not been around nearly long enough to base an enterprise system in them.

-Walden

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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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