Software Development – Page 17

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

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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