huy wrote:
Dave Cook wrote:
On 2004-12-20, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
I think I can put together a useable (but not visually stunning) web
interface faster than I can put together any pure client-side
interface.
Web browser "widgets" seem pretty limited to me, though. You don't even
have something as simple as a combo box (i.e. an editable entry with a drop
down), let alone the rich set of widgets something like wxwidgets offers.
Also web development doesn't seem as coherent to me as development with a
good GUI framework.
I think it depends on your target audience. Many people love simplicity. Many people hate multiple tabs, tree structures, deep nested menus etc etc. If you wanted to make a web program as complex as a rich client program then it's probably a bad idea to do as a web program. But If you wanted to keep it simple, then I'd go with a web program any day.
Indeed the best advice to many programmers is to spend A LOT of time considering the user interface, since that's what will often have the major impact on user experience, and hence ultimately on acceptance.
I still moan about having to use EIGHT mouse clicks in Mozilla 1.7 to change my default SMTP host to the other one on a list of two. Which remionds me, time to check out the latest release ...
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