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Perhaps. But I've said it before, of the things you'd want in a business
application* there is very little you can do on a desktop that you
cannot do in web land. The two biggies that come to mind are drag/drop
and right-click both of which are supported on the web.


I don't mean drag/drop and right-click, i mean things like good keyboard processing, like type ahead.
Business apps are keyboard centric, not mouse centric. The browser is not made for this.
Buf of course, everything is possible.

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:07 -0400
From: WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] The "Presentation" Layer

full-blown application with all the features of a GUI
which we are accustomed to having on the desktop

Perhaps. But I've said it before, of the things you'd want in a business
application* there is very little you can do on a desktop that you
cannot do in web land. The two biggies that come to mind are drag/drop
and right-click both of which are supported on the web.

-Walden

* "Business Application" as opposed to CAD/PhotoShop/Halo3.

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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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