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Bank moving away from web based app

February 19, 2004 Alan Comments 0 Comment

U.K. bank sees browserless future. [via Scoble]

Today, Egg is primarily Web-based,” said Chief Information Officer Tom Llube, addressing the Developing Software for the Future Microsoft Platform conference at London’s QEII Conference Centre this week. “But going forward, we will have to move it to smart-client-based solution.”

But, he said, the bank will move away from the current “one size fits all” model to having a range of services suited to different types of users. “So, if I have a critical mass of users on Longhorn who expect a different class of experience, we will cater for them, but we would support the others

When in doubt, ignore LongHorn

February 19, 2004 Alan Comments 0 Comment

Thank you Chris, for that practical advice

Priorities determine choice of development platform

February 19, 2004 Alan Comments 0 Comment

This sure seems to be an arguement against web-based applications: The IE Factor

It depends what your priorities are. Rich client apps have it’s benefits and shortfalls as does web-apps.

The promise of having one “code” base (HTML, Javascript, CSS files) isn’t a true reality when you have to jump through hoops to create common “code” that all browsers on all platforms will like. This is trial-and-error programming. Perhaps it’s still better than writing multiple client apps for each platform; again, if your priority is to have a product on multiple platforms.

When the time comes that Windows does not garner 90% of the user market and home users are spread more evenly across various platforms, the economics will devalue the choice to only develop windows-based client apps. But not today.

Should standards compliance be a goal not a requirement?

February 19, 2004 Alan Comments 0 Comment

Web standards: practice what you preach?
I’m not so sure. If you say you follow a set of rules, then you shouldn’t be allowed to break the rules when it stops being “convenient”. Especially when there are alternatives within the rules that work.
Would you consider laws a goal not a requirement? Are speed limits a “goal”?

If the rules stop working then we should change the rules by the established processes.

Update:
I asked a friend (non-blogger), who is a deeper thinker than I his opinion, and this is the thread that ensued:

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Blog rendering themes

February 19, 2004 Alan Comments 0 Comment

I thought Don Park’s examples were a little out there and would be distracting. But themes in general are a nice idea and these templates for FeedDemon are good examples