John Topley has a post on Win vs. Web Apps and I am 100% in agreement with his views. Even if Win Apps are a pain to deploy, once deployed they provide the maximum productivity to the end user.
My prefence for Win App may also be partly due to me being a VB programmer. My first brush with Web apps were with ASP.NET (How the hell did people really use ASP.. Reading about it gives me the creeps) and even though ASP.NET makes web development easier and OO based, I still sourly miss my powerful win apps.
I feel that beyond single-screen data entry, web apps are a pain in the ***. And deployment of non-web apps has not really been that much of a pain, at least for the last three years or so. My opinion is that the people who prefer web apps are the ones that have to *write* and *maintain* apps, not users. Because developers and "architects" are too lazy to factor in a deployment framework, and "IT professionals" are too lazy to learn about *existing* deployment features, users are stuck with relatively unproductive, sluggish, graphic-filled, underpowered-UI-element-cursed "web applications".
*Whew*. That felt good.
Posted by: Raj Chaudhuri | March 20, 2004 at 03:01 AM
Actually, ASP 3.0 wasnt that bad. Sometimes, I still long for the kind of dev that ASP 3.0/PHP encourage you to do. ASP.NET has a lot of leaky abstractions...
Posted by: Sriram Krishnan | March 20, 2004 at 03:12 PM