Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
What I want doesn't matter. Our clients want rich web 2.0 webapps.
I just want to make them in pascal and keep the codebase and know-how
I have in my team.
If it was up to me, client/server would do the job just fine. But I cannot
ask all parents of all pupils of all our schools to install a client
application:
a) They don't want it. They are mostly computer agnostic, but they can surf the
internet.
b) Our helpdesk would find and emigrate to an unknown island somewhere in the
south pacific because of the installation and upgrade problems :-)
This is a position that I have not been able to understand for several
years now.
(Since Delphi can easily create self-contained, install-less
applications, I'm assuming FPC can as well.) So why not create a link on
the web site, where the users start, that downloads the program and runs
it. The program then talks TCP/IP direct to an application server to get
all data just like it would talk to a web server.
No installation required. This is what Java Web Start is all about and
it works really, really well. You can do the same thing.
I believe the only reason customers ask for browser-based RIA is that is
the only choice they are familiar with because the media are all abuzz
about it. Other, better choices have been around for a long time that
solve the same problem.
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