RE: What do I use?

From: Paul Raulerson

Sure - ever heard of having to bring up a check to view it, or validate a
signature?

Yup. My bank does it right now, with a browser. Piece of cake.

They can often be represented by icons that display and react to choices
the user makes in a GUI style application. There are plenty of other
examples, such as flagging accounts that have issues, or so on.

Well, since these applications worked just fine in the green screen, chances
are that they'll work just fine in the browser with or without icons. But
in general, if you do use icons (literally, small images that intuitively
represent some action or attribute) throughout the application, then as
Aaron pointed out these images will be cached and that means they'll be as
fast if not faster in the browser, since they don't actually have to be sent
over the wire.

And yes, there are applications that do not need graphics, which may or
may not be suitable for hosting on the web.

Yup. We call these business applications. And they are eminently suited
for hosting on the web. In fact, I've yet to see you come up with one
business application that is NOT suitable for browser-based deployment.

Joe