Listen to that little voice in your head!
Monday, May 14th, 2007Today I was reading an article about JyRCP/RAP. In that article, there was one paragraph in particular that caught my attention: Although I’m convinced of the future of rich web apps, there is always this little voice inside my head that says that web technology is meant for document presentation and rich user interfaces are better off with client side GUI technology. You can abuse document presentation elements to fake a rich user interface and you can combine a large set of GUI widgets to look like a document, but you’ll always keep running into practical issues because the technology wasn’t meant for that purpose. Even the best solution is basically no more than a very clever workaround.